Don
Beverly grew up on the shores of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach
County, Florida, graduated from Vanderbilt University and
the University of Florida Law School, beginning his career
in Miami as a trial lawyer.
During his
multi-faceted career, Don Beverly has
written many articles about his interests, and is the author
of successive editions of the
legal treatise,
FLORIDA TRIAL EVIDENCE..
Don has
also served as a Director on the Boards of Chris Craft,
Sarasota,
Florida;
Kirkwood Ski Resort
Corporation, Lake Tahoe, Nevada;
National Cutting Horse Association,
Fort Worth, Texas;
Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers;
Trial Section
of The Florida Bar
and as frequent Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee
of The Florida Bar.
He ultimately moved to West Palm
Beach
where
he practiced law until retiring to Florida's Gulf Coast
where he now continues to pursue his lifelong love of writing,
particularly about his numerous life experiences. Beverly, known to his
wife Molly and friends simply as "DB", achieved national prominence as a lawyer.
He has accumulated over five thousand hours as a pilot and
has won numerous state and national cutting horse
championships.
Don
still enjoys skiing in the Rockies and air-boating in the
Everglades.
Fiction
In his break-out
first action adventure novel,
OPERATION:
EVERGLADES, Beverly called upon his personal reservoir of knowledge and experience to
take a shot at the bureaucratic shenanigans which have
irreparably wounded his beloved Everglades. While weaving
an incredibly well researched but exciting tale of the
confusing mix of drugs and terrorism, the story produces
strange and often unforeseen allies. All is enacted in
his first book,
OPERATION:
EVERGLADES,
by colorful and credible characters against the backdrop of
an astounding wetlands geography and environment seldom seen
by humans. The book easily earned the description
"page turner", but at the same time, not always so
subtly, communicated a message of national consciousness
not to be disregarded. This is clearly the work of a
patriot. To preview sample chapters, please see:
Operation
Everglades
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CARTEL
CONNECTION
The second
Jake McCall adventure novel, in which McCall finds himself
suddenly dispatched by Lear Jet to inspect security at the
Crystal River nuclear power plant on Florida's Gulf coast.
Suspecting that the nearby historic old cross-state barge
canal is being used by a Mexican cartel as the gateway for
illegal trafficking in drugs and humans, Jake is
unexpectedly confronted by a large and powerful man whose
younger brother was murdered years before by the cartel.
Vowing revenge and now working as a double agent, the man
known to the Mexicans only as el Toro, is both feared and
respected in both countries. Now allies, Jake and el Toro
engage in a series of bloody battles which leads them to the
western coast of Cuba, then to the Bahamas.
Preview sample chapters at:
Cartel Connection
THE
RIPPLE EFFECT MURDERS
The third in the series,
begins in the Florida Keys when Jake discovers an unattended
fishing boat adrift in the backwaters of Madeira Bay.
Abandoning his day of bone-fishing to tow the orphan vessel
back to port, Jake and the DEA discover the boat is loaded
with cocaine and McCall is involuntarily entrapped in the
investigation of who murdered the boat driver and left his
body parts as a gruesome trademark. Using the sexually
carefree lifestyles of Key West and Las Vegas as camouflage,
the mysterious killer can only be identified by the
expensive and custom made fisherman's knife with which the
victims are dismembered with surgical precision. Jake
follows a bloody trail across Interstate 10 from Florida to
Las Vegas with little to rely on but the opinion of an
eccentric, gay ex-New York cop. Now profiled as
pathologically narcissistic and eager to kill anyone deemed
unfit, the killer kidnaps a beautiful female FBI agent in
Vegas and in a city accustomed to playing the odds, the
stakes become life or death. Preview a sample chapter
at:
The Ripple Effect Murders
BITE
THE HAND
The fourth in the Jake
McCall adventure series, begins with a vow by Jake's former
law school classmate to avenge the slaughter of his young
wife by four drug dealers. Narrowly escaping death himself,
the husband builds a hideout deep in the Colorado Rockies
and disappears in order to become invisible and later return
to south Florida to assassinate his wife's killers. Soon
realizing that to kill for revenge will be his own death
sentence, he calls on Jake and the FBI to help, having now
compiled a detailed and incriminating file on his wife's
murderers. As their network of drug smuggling and
distribution is unraveled, it leads to a Lebanese born and
Americanized kingpin who lures disciples of Islamic
extremism into the drug trade as a means to subsidize
terrorism and kill multitudes of American infidels, all in
the name of Allah. After a young and fanatical American
convert to Islam attempts an airborne attack on Disney
world, the chase leads to Manhattan and back to Miami where
plans for a terrorist drone attack on the Super Bowl are
underway."
Preview a sample
chapter at
Bite The Hand
BIRMINGHAM
BOYS
When the massive corporate bankruptcy of Worldwide
Aviation is filed in Birmingham, Alabama, and assigned
to a corrupt trustee who is an addicted gambler, the
local fraternity of greedy bankruptcy lawyers quickly
lines up at the attorneys' fee feeding trough, knowing
it will be lavishly funded by the trustee in order to
insulate himself from blackmail by the six.
Cynically labeled the "Birmingham Boys" by those who
suspect a conspiracy being funded by obscene fee awards,
little can be done so long as the trustee's actions are
ratified by a senile Federal judge who rubber stamps his
decisions. The unique assets of Worldwide enable the
trustee's cronies to abandon any vestige of ethics as
they feast on the bankrupt carcass like the vultures
they have become. Brazenly using one of the corporate
aircraft to import drugs from South America to
Birmingham with the help of a wealthy Arab who covets
the inventory of distressed aircraft and real estate,
the level of bribery and theft attracts attention from
both private and government interests.
But when both an FBI investigator and brilliant female
lawyer independently focus on the millions being
siphoned from the Worldwide bankrupt estate, their
loyalties clash as they become overwhelmed by greed and
worm their way into the thievery. Ultimately forced to
form an involuntary coalition and funded by their
illicit cash flow, a need to launder their money propels
them into the formation of an international Ponzi
scheme, using a failed Bahamian real estate development
as the decoy to attract investors. Unfortunately, the
highly profitable scam entices both legitimate investors
and drug cartel money alike, an inevitable formula for
danger.
Preview 'Birmingham Boys'
After an industrious branch bank manager in the
predominately Hispanic community of South Florida recognizes
the beginnings of a Ponzi scheme being masterminded by a
brilliant local lawyer, he uses his insider status and
electronic wizardry to foster the success of the scheme as a
decoy to set up his own bank for liability. After carefully
studying the Madoff and similar cases, he learns that the
inevitable collapse of any Ponzi scheme will produce massive
and unrecoverable losses for legitimate investors.
Similarly, he reasons that the missing link of financial
responsibility can be filled by orchestrating a blueprint
for the undeniable culpability of his own bank. By doing so,
he insures that all who invest in the Ponzi scheme,
including himself, will prosper when their claims for
compensatory and punitive damages are paid by the bank.
The banker has learned that the combination of electronic
banking and bank employees who are fundamentally computer
operators has produced an environment within which an
electronic shell game can be run with multiple accounts
capable of being manipulated at will. By opening
computerized accounts showing fictitious balances, subject
to audit or complaint by no one other than the depositor
himself, the corrupt and psychopathic lawyer, the banker
successfully hides in the electronic shadows of the Ponzi
scheme. He simultaneously discovers that the bank's own
president has been bribed and is conspiring with the lawyer
to use the obscure branch as a repository for the millions
being generated by his scam. Now living in his pathological
world of excess and the celebrity his new wealth has
brought, the crooked lawyer overlooks the possibility that
he will be discovered by an innocuous branch manager. That
is, until one of the Ponzi investors thought to be a Mexican
cartel boss insists that the lawyer return his money. Unable
to do so as his house of cards begins to collapse, the
lawyer flees to Morocco, followed by both the Mexican
investor's enforcer and special agent Jake McCall of the
FBI, now unintended allies in the manhunt.
The intricacies of both the complex Ponzi scheme and the
banker's underlying electronic manipulations are both
profound and frighteningly real, requiring McCall to revert
to his earlier career days as a Miami lawyer in order to
gain access to the seamy and dangerous side of the practice
by those who push the law too far. Through his unique frame
of reference as an attorney and Federal agent, McCall
ultimately observes that the cunning little branch banker
has remarkably outsmarted both today's electronic banking
system and a lawyer who deluded himself into thinking he
could do the same.
Non-Fiction
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HOW TO
TALK WESTERN,
is a book of Western humor which the author characterizes as "a primer of words and phrases for all sorts of tin horns and wanna-be cowboys who need to learn how to talk-the-talk so they can walk-the-walk." He cautions, "If you're looking for a serious read, avoid this book at all costs."
Preview sample chapters of this fun book at
How To Talk Western..
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