Michael Curley: 7 books

Hank Morgan could be the poster boy for his generation. Born in the late 1940s, he was a child in the fifties, a college student in the sixties, and a draftee and Vietnam veteran in the 1970s. Monkey Dish tells of his culinary education in late twentieth century America. Hank, a working-class kid...

Mustafa al-Khalid is the spoiled only child of a very wealthy Turkish family, the source of whose wealth is alcohol. They own the largest brewery in Turkey. His ostracism pushes him to study Islam where he meets and proposes to Jasmine, the only person he has ever loved. At their engagement party Jasmine,...

Mustafa al-Khalid is the spoiled only child of a very wealthy Turkish family. Through his exclusive boarding school in Switzerland and university in Munich, he is shunned by other Moslems because the source of his family’s wealth is alcohol. They own the largest brewery in Turkey. His ostracism pushes...

A virus is killing American sailors. Is it North Korea, or is a billionaire Turkish terrorist to blame? Admiral Molly McNamara, the forty-three-year-old chief of naval operations, protects the US fleet and prepares for war. Lindsay Grace, a thirty-year-old British financial genius who grew up in China...

This is a story about a young woman scientist, a naval reserve officer, who organizes a team of ex-SEAL, ex-Special Forces types to protect the men and women who volunteer to work for "Doctors Without Borders" in parts of the world that are dangerous.

Molly McNamara is a cyber-whiz who teaches the Navy how to protect the country from cyber attacks while becoming an Admiral, at 43 years of age, and the first head of the U.S. Cyber Security Command.

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching.  Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins,...