Publisher's Synopsis
My Wild and Woolly Nonretirement to Thailand is Volume IV of a four-volume autobiography titled He Who Climbs a Tree and Hollers: A Ragamuffin's Quest for Success and Love. You would be hard-pressed to find a nonfiction book jam-packed with as much drama, passion, adventure, highlife, intrigue, pathos, melodrama, danger, excitement, and heartbreak as narrated in this true story! It is hard to believe that one person could experience so many peaks and valleys of life in just an eleven-year period. It is almost beyond belief that it all happened between Jack's ages seventy-five and eighty-six! It is a fitting culmination to the life story of Jack Gargan, an ordinary guy who lived an extraordinarily interesting, productive, and drama-filled life. You can check him out on Wikipedia and Google.
It starts with Jack, at age seventy-six, being the apex of a torrid love triangle between two beautiful Thai ladies, both thirty three years his junior. Supap, one of the richest, most powerful women in Thailand, and Paniwan, a poor country school teacher. It ends with a flight for life from sadistic gangsters with his young Thai wife. They fled with only the clothes on their backs, a small stash of silver coins and a cocked and loaded .32 Colt revolver at their feet. In between was making a small fortune in the real estate and motel business, surviving four close calls with death, running the P J Ranch, their rice and cattle farm, living the life of an oriental potentate, then losing his entire fortune to Thai gangsters. Even worse is the tragic breakup of his once-tight and loving family, apparently because three of his four children blamed his wife's naive actions for loss of their substantial inheritance, and then him for defending her. Jack is the author of five other successful books, including a Book of The Month selection.
