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 News from Around Banderas Bay | July 2007 
Yelapa Author Robert Hardin Releases New Novel
 PVNN
Yelapa, Jalisco - Local author, Robert Hardin, today announced the release of "Paradise Marred," a fast-paced thriller inspired by today's headlines.
In this novel, top-flight criminal attorney, David Armstrong, takes on the case of a man kidnapped from Mexico by the FBI and returned to San Francisco to stand trial for the murder of his wife nine years earlier.
While David rails in court against the FBI's illegal actions, his lover, U.S. Senator Felicia Bates-Baxter, attacks the President and his Administration for the usurpation of our civil rights in the wake of 9/11.
When asked why he chose to include current politics in his latest plot, Robert Hardin said, "I don't think I could've avoided the issue. With David being a protector of our Constitutional guarantees, and Felicia being a liberal senator, it was natural for them to confront the two wars the Bush Administration is waging-the ill-fated one in Iraq; the other, an assault against the liberties of every American citizen."
Paradise Marred begins tranquilly with scenes in Puerto Vallarta and Yelapa but abruptly changes to San Francisco and Washington, D.C., where the twin causes of David and Felicia require them to put their careers, and maybe even their very lives, at risk.
When Robert Hardin was a boy, his mother would send him to their small-town library to check out mystery novels. The time came when she had read them all.
Hardin's first career was in sales; he later earned a law degree and practiced tax law. He eased into retirement, working part time as a factotum in a Sausalito law firm for several years and living on a sailboat in Sausalito harbor. A late-in-life marriage in 2002 brought him back to live on dry land.
When Hardin fully retired at the end of 2004 he and his wife moved to Mexico and are enjoying life as year-round residents of Yelapa. Robert now works full time as an author and, just as his mother did, reads mysteries like eating peanuts.
Paradise Marred (ISBN 0595450329) is Hardin's fifth novel in the David Armstrong courtroom thriller series. The first two were published in the 70's and are out of print, though "Amateur Hour" is available used from Amazon.
"Federal Offense" (ISBN 1424109345) and "Imperfect Crimes" (ISBN 1424150736) were published last year and are also available at Amazon, as is "Paradise Marred." You can also check with your local bookseller.
Anyone wishing to know more about the author and his work may email him at croberthardin@gmail.com or access his profile page at Amazon Connect on Amazon.com.
 Kathryn and Robert Hardin moved from northern California in January 2005 to a beach house in Yelapa where they live year-round with their two black cats, a canary and a tiny finch. They have no second home in the U.S. and are proud to say "there is no storage." Yelapa is their home and they have never been happier. |
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