Author Description

From the cowboys of Hollywood to the Cowboys of Cocaine. Michael Kennedy recounts his experiences growing up with his father a veteran actor, Bill Kennedy on the movie and TV sets of the forties and fifties. As he grows up in Hollywood he drops out of high school and becomes a professional deckhand at 15 years old joining the Navy at 17 with notable rough spots in between including attending gladiator school. Michael returns to life in the wealthy community of Grosse Pointe, MI where his father had established himself as a prominent TV personality. Michael’s life changed drastically when he married his first wife and began growing more knowledgeable about finance, exotic cars, and an entirely different lifestyle in the Bahamas. Michael found a modern-day version of the Swiss Family Robinson on a remote Island in the Central Bahamas where he raises his family and except for a year he took off to explore a theatrical career in FILM and STAGE his little utopia which was taken over by the drug trade with the likes of Pablo Escobar and his minions who turn Michael’s life into a downward spiral which he nearly did not pull out of.