लेखक: John M. Powers

John M Powers, the author of BUMWAD a novel, is an architect of over 25 years with his firm, Powers Design Inc., who has a staff of 25, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, that mainly works for large developers. He was lead design on large scale projects throughout the Southeast United States & Puerto Rico, with a total est. value of over 4 $billion. He & his two sons, Mc Leod Powers & Daniel Powers, are avid offshore Bluewater fishermen, and, as his characters in his novel, BUMWAD, have fished many years in huge Marlin Tournaments in The Bahamas. A place he loves and the basis for the amazing venues and locations in his story… about huge fishing tournaments, with 2 sons & a father, US Marine Special Forces, 4Star Generals & an attack on Cuba. John, Mac and Daniel (who was 5 years a US Marine in Hawaii) all have been to the huge Junkanoo Festivals in The Bahamas that are not unlike Mardi Gras, New Orleans. This festival makes up a chapter or two in BUMWAD, a story about Greed & a few brave men who fought it. He”s loved & been fascinated of Havana and all of Cuba. It all shows in his story. He studied extensively all about this beleaguered beautiful island when he was at college at the University of Florida. And Its wonderful & happy people, all 8 million of them, still under The Castro”s Evil Regime of Communism after 50 years worth of it. John uses his professional experience working for big developers not unlike TRUMP, who is a key character in the novel. But an illusive one, in the book. Aways in the background. #41. Ian Shear Mc Leod, the main character… an architect, agrees to design a huge home in Cuba on a 5000 acre Sugar Plantation. His new client, he met at The Bacardi Shootout Marlin Tournament, is the Don of a huge Drug Empire. Unbeknownst to Ian. His daughter is a Cuban Latin Beauty. Ian is a Scotsman, like Powers. Hold Fast. The author”s passion of all things nature & remarkable things, brings his own take to this character that”s “a hero in tarnished armor”, the Mysterious Latin Beauty, Lena, he falls for, calls him…with his incredible descriptions of the fascinating settings of the Bahamas, Havana, & The Huge Rain Forests of Cuba. It took Powers two years to write this fascinating story. He is an artist & the cover Illustration of “Lena”, the mysterious Latin Beauty, & the many of the old “historical like”, sepia toned images, dispersed carefully throughout the novel, are his.