Swimming Monkeys

Swimming Monkeys is a captivating action-adventure thriller with heart, humor, and an intriguing, well-grounded premise that explores what it means to be human.

"Hadden's work is a thrilling adventure with substance and memorably eccentric characters that cleverly integrates conflicts between creationism and evolution."

-- BookLifePrize in Fiction.

"I absolutely cannot believe how stunning this book is! From the very first paragraph, I was sucked into a different world, consumed with the already building suspense and mystery."-Goodreads Review

Olympic hopeful Ryan Webster has a unique gift known only to his grandfather. With the help of his Uncle Thad, a fun, spontaneous, and heroic marine veteran turned surfer, Ryan hopes he's on the path to become the man he wants to be.

But when Ryan is summoned to a Miami hospice by his dying grandfather, a renowned zoologist and founder of the world's most famous primate park, he tells Ryan about a remarkable species of monkey kept secret by the Webster men since their discovery in 1926. Now threatened by man's encroachment, he tells Ryan that only he can rescue them and decide if the world is now ready for their revelation.

Vowing to grant his grandfather's last wish, Ryan and his uncle pursue a myriad of cryptic clues into a remote jungle, thrusting them into a deadly battle against a relentless mercenary, a radical Christian society, the world's most famous atheist, and the government sworn protect them.

Ryan discovers the monkeys can do much more than swim, and he learns their revelation will shock evolutionist, rock the foundation of the Bible, and transform the life of every person on earth.

Now, his only hope to stay alive is to save the monkeys and live up to his promise to the greatest man he ever knew-and in the process become the man he's not ready to be.

Swimming Monkeys is an extraordinary, high-stakes adventure thriller that blends real-science and riveting fiction to examine the on-going battle between science and religion and the fallout that could affect us all.