After completing his enlistment in the United States Air Force as a pilot, Patrick Lennon began a thirty-year career in healthcare spending twenty-years as a hospital CEO. An avid fisherman, he won several marlin and sailfish tournaments in Florida and the Bahamas. He and his wife enjoyed island life and bought a small hotel in the Bahamas, which will be another story some day. The laid-back life style inspired him to start writing short stories. Literary and commercial magazines published ten of his stories. The Key West Theatre Festival selected his play "Oh, Danny Boy the Pipes Have Played." "Paradise Lost" is his sixth novel and it has been accepted by the Pulitzer Prize Board for consideration in 2007. (see: www.ParadiseLostNovel.com/page2.html ) A former member of the Dramatists Guild in New York and past president of the Key West Writers Guild, he is the current president of the Treasure Coast Writers Guild. He and his wife, Marilyn, reside on the Treasure Coast of Florida.

Two-time winner of Short story contests. Current novel 'Paradise Lost' has been accepted for the 2007 Pulitzer competition.

Past President of Key West Writers Guild, former Member of Dramatists Guild in New York and currently president of the Treasure Coast Writers Guild. His recent novel 'Paradise Lost'is entered in the Pulitzer Prize Competition. www.ParadiseLostNovel.com

Paradise Lost
Fidel Castro's 26 July Movement responds to Batista's cruel dictatorship with student protests and guerilla attacks against the Cuban army. Castro is in Key West raising money for his exile army training in Mexico. An assassin sent to Key West by Batista to kill Castro mistakenly murders a young man who resembles Castro. Ramon, the oldest brother of the murdered man, tracks the assassin to Cuba to avenge his brother's death. After seeing conditions in Cuba, Ramon decides to help overthrow Batista and he smuggles guns to Castro's army in Mexico and and later in Cuba. When relations between the United States and Cuba sour after Castro's takeover, the CIA pressures Ramon to run guns to anti-Castro forces. Ramon learns that many Cubans support Castro and advises the CIA that it is doubtful there would be support for an invasion of Cuba. After the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, Ramon's life returns to normal until the CIA once again recruits him to take agents into Cuba to document the installation of missiles. When he attempts to bring the agents back to Florida, the Cuban military nearly sink his boat. The information he brings back from Cuba is vital to the Kennedy Administration and their confrontation with the Soviet Union to remove the missiles.

A Dose of Murder
Fun read and romp through Key West and Caracas with a detective in hot pursuit of a dastardly doctor-and women along the way. Hard boiled police detective Matt O'Grady plays against internal politics and international extradition to get his man. The plot wraps up where it might have been seen to be going, but with a number of the players in very different places from where they began. Pleasurable and pictorial story for lovers of detective fiction. And Matt O'Grady's got legs-we could see him back again for more.

Kiss the Pilot
In 1912 Tony Jannus, a handsome 22 year-old pilot, attempts to set a record for the longest flight over water. He becomes the chief pilot for the first scheduled airline. He was a test pilot for an airplane manufacturer and instructor for Russian pilots before the United States entered World War I. He is drawn into combat with the German Navy during the war. Through out his adventurous life he meets and dates many attractive young women. War tests his courage and changes his outlook on life. He meets the woman he wants to marry and they set a date.

Tale Spinning
A collection of short stories by an author who has a unique way of looking at life and finding the right words to express a vivid image of the scene and unforgettable characters. "Fat Albert" is an award-winning story about a fisherman who catches a ride he will never forget. "The Great Train Robbery", also an award-winning story, looks at two hobos who admire Jesse James and plan to rob a train in Key West. "A Fish Tail" is the story of a teenage boy battling a blue marlin during a fishing tournament. The collection includes fourteen stories.