Published as a hardcover in 2006, the paperback version of Gringos in Paradise is due out this year (2008).

There are gentle mornings in paradise when Barry and Thia can walk to the beach after fresh-squeezed orange juice and exchanged pleasantries with Mexican neighbors and Expat buddies. Increasingly as the house-building money flows like tropical downpours from their hands and the timetables squeeze so tightly that forbidden cigarettes are the only release for both Gringos, paradise is held hostage. There are the inescapable struggles with Mexican bureaucracy -- the mysterious channels taken to acquire the necessary permits, deeds, contracts—maddenly baroque to Americans. And, yet, their biggest cash outlay and their largest commitment is made with a handshake with their house builder Beto, about whom no generalization is possible nor no praise to great.

They learned to travel the roughly rutted—Eagle George, their next-door neighbor, works at keeping the road nearly impassable-- of their village street as well as the mysterious channels required for the necessary permits, deeds, contracts, and agreements. The house is built: it is as lovely as the many friendships that form. Still, the Golsons need to dip back in the El Norte rat race to replenish their bank account as Barry accepts a stateside job to afford their home in Sayulita: paradise is indeed still there… but paradise is never free.

More information, including excerpts is available on Don's website: www.gringosinparadise.net

Gringos in Paradise is available at most major booksellers, including Powells and Amazon. ISBN Numbers: 978-0743276351 (Hardcover), 978-0743276368 (Paperback).