"PASSPORT TO DANGER"

...a thrashing story line, entangled in adventure, risk, death...

The year is 1954, and Marty Roland, a k a Nick Mangieri, has grown increasingly bored with his sightseeing vacations to the Caribbean. His solution is to embark on a hunting expedition to Central America, which is perched on the brink of war. He never dreams that an innocent American hunter will be considered a threat as he crosses borders with guns in tow.

He soon learns otherwise.

So begins the adventures of the young Italian American from Fort Lauderdale as he goes in search of challenges, trophies and wealth in the tropical jungles of Costa Rica, British Guiana and Mexico.

Facing life-threatening danger at every turn, he plunges into the hearts of those countries to pit his strength, stamina and determination against the natural world and its formidable inhabitants.

In the oppressive heat of the jungles where the sheer magnitude of blood-sucking insects alone can drive a man to madness, he hunts boa and jaguar, learning all too well how quickly the hunter can become the hunted and the hungry become the meal.

In British Guiana, he makes a home in a "pork-knocker" village to search for wealth by prospecting for diamonds. And quickly learns that the murderous greed of men is far more threatening and deadly than the piranha-filled streams, nests of scorpions and deadly "anni" he encounters on his daily treks to work his "pit."

And finally, in Mexico, he rises to face one of the biggest challenges of his life, scaling the 18,700-foot Pico de Orizaba mexico's highest and North America's third highest mountain wearing little more than jeans, a light parka and some leather hunting boots.

He went in search of adventure and found it ten-fold.

And now he shares his story with the world.