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Author Cliff Popkey
I wrote the first four books under a pen name- Chris Keys-Just so you know.

​​The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story:

Praise for The Fishing Trip—A Ghost Story!
“I had the pleasure of editing The Fish¬ing Trip—A Ghost Story. Even though my opinion might be slightly biased, I found Key’s colorful characters and gruesome ghouls to be likeable and entertaining; his storyline, enthralling and filled with sus¬pense. A truly chilling (fish) tale that will satisfy the ghost lover in all.”
Kaye Lynn Booth, Writing To
Be Read

The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story! I LOVED THE BOOK, EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT!!!!!!!
-Sara Colella

The Fishing trip—A Ghost Story!
I read it and recommend this book. It’s a good summer read. Congrats.!!! Rhonda Berdish

Reprisal! The Eagle Rises & Reprisal! The Eagle's Guantlet:

​​​​REPRISAL! THE EAGLE RISES! BY CHRIS KEYS
Vigilantes or Patriots?
I’ve often thought, out of frustration with a liberal administration, what kind of response unlimited wealth could achieve to do the job of protecting America when the Ideological Administration refused to do so. Now we know. ‘Reprisal’ has answered that question – in spades. I give it 5 stars!!!!!
Frank Fiore the author of CyberKill!
Available soon from CreateSpace!
A MUST READ—FIVE STARS! Frank Fiore the author of CyberKill!

Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! is a hold-on-to-your-seat action thriller from beginning to end. Politics, terrorism and personal ambition creates a toxic mixture that will have the reader lost deep within the action, wondering how things can get worse for the good guys. If you’re looking for a page-turner you can’t put down, Chris Keys has one right here. Author Tony Eldridge-The Samson Effect-Creator of-Marketing tips for Authors-the hottest market site for authors on the web. Soon to be a major motion picture!

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Author Cliff Popkey aka Chris Keys.
FIVE STAR REVIEWS!!!!!!




​​​​​​Synopsis:

The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story
  ​​​Four friends, brothers Bill and Ryan, plus their two life long friends, Charlie and Danny, take their annual fishing trip on Lake Michigan during the fall, salmon season. It’s a trip they have taken for the last six years. It has proven to be great fun for the four young men, but this year, things will be different.
   After spending the day without catching a single fish, they decide to break the rule set down by the brother’s father years ago, after a particularly bad night of fishing, to never stay on the lake after dark ever again. Once darkness closes in and they’ve drank far too much, the light house light winks out, then they experience the failure of their navigation equipment, becoming hopelessly lost out on the dark lake.
   In their wandering about the lake, they discover an old ferry that appears to be abandoned. This chance encounter, changes forever their annual excursion from a fun filled, male bonding experience into a race to the safety of shore with the devil’s own nipping at their heels and chopping at their heads. The twists and turns come fast and furious, culminating in a shocking climax that will leave you gasping and ready to swim to shore.






​​​​​Reprisal! The Eagle Rises
  After America suffers the two largest terrorist attacks in history and realizing newly elected President Alan Starks and his administration are inexplicably refusing to go after the real terrorists. Billionaire businessman, Steven Howard, takes matters into his own hands and takes the war on terror to the terrorists.
   Risking his fortune, his life and the lives of his family, he creates a private army under the guise of Corporate Security. Howard enlists the help of his friend newly retired Marine Corp. General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles (Chip) Clarett, and together they begin tracking down the terrorist responsible for the attacks on America and the deaths of the General’s grand children and daughter in-law. The terrorist trail leads them to Cuba, where a portion of the terrorist cell is preparing for the next attack on America.
   While on the home front, Howard begins a campaign of speeches and media events with the hope of forcing President Starks to step up and defend the nation with more than diplomacy and political correctness. By chance while following the money trail behind the terror attacks, Howard and Clarett discover the trail leads to Washington and the White House. After a little digging, their effort exposes the President’s plot to expand the power of the presidency by whatever means necessary including bribery, extortion and murder.
   Faced with the overwhelming evidence Howard and Clarett are forced to open a second front in their personal war on terror. A political front, fraught with scandal and the cut throat politics of personal destruction; with the prize to the winner, of not only the White House, but the country itself.






​​​​​Reprisal! The Eagle's Gauntlet
      In the continuing battle against terrorism, both at home and aboard, Steven Howard and General Charles (Chip) Clarett’s private war on terror takes Kilauea security into Israel’s West Bank in search of the money man behind the attacks on Houston and San Antonio.
    Now face to face with the Palestinian’s Al-Aqsa Brigade and having to be ever vigilant for an Israel traitor, the team overcomes incredible odds to find and recover their target David Ashrawl. While tying up loose ends after their heroic battle, Ron Hough confronts the Israel traitor and discovers the true powers behind the terrorists and the strangle hold of corruption they have over the presidency.
    As America falters under the weight of corruption and inept economic policies, President Starks continues to strengthen his personal power and to expand his personal wealth through bribes, extortion, intimidation and murder. All the while doing the bidding of the Brotherhood of the Sword and ignoring the countries free falling economy and the growing threat of terrorism.
    As the tensions build surrounding the coming elections, Steven Howard and Chip Clarett find themselves having to seek new allies and build a conscientious of patriotic Americans to stand behind Steven and Chip as they seek to halt President Starks end run around the constitution and his ultimate goal of becoming the first American Dictator.









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​​​Pirates Plunder-A Nate Nevwas Adventure
   ​​In his never ending personal quest to help damsels in distress, physically challenged crime fighter, Nate Nevwas, finds himself drawn into a plot to steal an underwater treasure trove and a murder for hire scheme, directed at someone near and dear to him, himself.
   After foiling a purse snatching by a mobster’s young nephew, Nate’s life is once again threatened by an inept criminal. Only this time the criminal has the wherewithal to carry out his threats.
   Then as if he needed more drama in his life, Nate comes to the rescue of a woman who he believes has been carjacked at gun point, though after being rescued, she and her husband refuse to involve the Sheriff. This leaves Nate with nagging suspicions that he must find the answers to.
   His search for answers takes Nate from the Everglades to Key West to the high seas. With the help of his friend, ex-NFL Hall of Famer, Anthony Mason, now a Monroe County Sheriff’s Detective, Nate repels boarders at his house boat, survives receiving a message to remember, dodges a rocket attack at sea and discovers far more questions than answers. With new each inquiry, Nate is inexorably drawn closer to a cutthroat band of modern day pirates and their plan to steal hundreds of millions in sunken treasure.
ABOUT ME!
I now have seven books on the ​market with three
​exclusively on Kindle:
​The Motor Home, The Encounter
​and What? No Second Date?
and my eighth book coming this fall from Saga Books
"Apollo Road"​​​​​


​​​GOOD NEWS
IN THE SMOKIES
A publication of the Mountain Press
Monday July 9, 2012
www.themountainpress.com

Popkey becomes successful
across many platforms

“It doesn’t matter if you fail little or fail big, they are both failure! So go out and fail big, because who ever heard of someone wanting to succeed in a little way!—American Adventure Author Chris Keys aka Cliff Popkey

Clifford Robert Popkey was born in Garden city, Mich. on March 19, 1955. He arrived as the fourth (Fifth actually) of his parents’ seven children. His father Robert was a machinist for the auto industry and his mother Shirley worked even harder caring for a full house.
An aspiring draftsman for Ford Motor Co. Cliff graduated from Edsel Ford High School in 1973. Athletic and bright, Popkey was a member of the football, debate and drama teams.
With all the options in the world before him, (the
dream of) a football scholarship was the top choice of a strong boy on the edge of manhood. However, as the great Ulysses S. Grant wrote in the preface of his memoirs, “Man proposes and God disposes.”
Less than two weeks after graduation cliff and a classmate were mowing the lawn at the Dearborn Country Club (Camp Dearborn) as part of the landscaping crew when everything changed. The two were cutting the grass around a car sized boulder when a couple of girls in string bikinis came their way. While they were both hormonally distracted for an instant, Cliff’s buddy ran over his foot.
In a matter of a split second, everything changed for young Popkey. Once he finally reached the closet hospital over fifty miles away, hundreds of internal and external stitches were required to rebuild his foot as best as 1973 medicine
would allow. The doctors told Cliff he would never be able to weight on it again. What they were really telling him was that he was never going to walk.
Of course, the doctor did not know who they were talking to, as even though it took a year and a half, Cliff Popkey was upright and moving forward. Inconvenient, strenuous and painful as it was, Popkey walked.
With his sports dreams behind him, Cliff took a job with a disposal company. (Actually some ten years later) Before long, he went from riding on the back of a garbage truck to becoming General Manager of the company. At the time, he took a company that was drastically being out competed to a business that eventually sold to their major competitor for over $3 million in 1991.
Because of his success at the disposal company, Cliff knew probably every businessperson in Oxford, Township Mich. Consequently, when the present township supervisor was found to be corrupt, many of those business people persuaded Popkey to run for the job. On Nov.3, 1991, Clifford Robert Popkey won his election by a landside, taking office in January 1992.
After cleaning up the corruption, Cliff enjoyed the job, but hated the politics, so he decided not to run for re-election. That day he became a self-proclaimed reformed politician.
After many jobs and more than one self employment, Popkey began writing novels under the name Chris Keys. Cliff actually began writing after high school but, it soon took a back seat to having to work and raise a family. He started writing again about 15 years ago as a hobby and decided to bring his passion to the public in 2006.
Cliff Popkey has owned a construction company, a pre-owned manufactured home sales company as well as been a truck driver, construction worker, sanitation engineer, warehouse worker, landscaper and politician. He has routinely over come every challenge life has presented, from nearly having had his foot amputated by an industrial lawn mower, as well as having fallen off two roofs while working construction. Cliff relocated to Sevier County with his wife Donna almost a year ago. As Chris Keys, Popkey has three novels available on Amazon and also on Smashwords in most Ebook formats titled, “The Fishing Trip-A ghost Story, Reprisal! The Eagle
Rises, and Reprisal! The Eagle’s Gauntlet. Cliff Popkey has recently changed his mind about using a pen name and will publish all his future works under his real name.
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”---English Arthur (Author) Samuel Johnson

---Henry Piarrot is a hotel manager and Sevier County resident on assignment in Hattiesburg, Miss. Please send all story recommendations to hpiarrot@Yahoo.com.
All items in ( ) by Cliff Popkey just helping to clarify some items the author misunderstood.

























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