"P.J. O'Rourke and Paul Theroux in a Blender."
-- Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway
"If I were an immigration officer in the Caribbean, I would never let this man enter my country!"
-- Tom Miller, author of Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels through Castro's Cuba
"When Gary Buslik dies, study his brain. We have to prevent the same thing happening again."
-- Daniel P. Luce, inmate counselor, Stateville Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois
"Fast-paced, quick-witted, and dangerously irreverent."
-- Elliott Hester, author of Adventures of a Continental Drifter
and the bestselling Plane Insanity
"I blame myself."
-- Shirley Buslik, Gary's mother
"I'll be reading, then I'll just start laughing...I love it!"
-- Anita Dunham-Potter, travel columnist, MSNBC.com
"When Gary Buslik dies, study his brain. We have to prevent the same thing happening again."
-- Daniel P. Luce, inmate counselor, Stateville Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois
"Fast-paced, quick-witted, and dangerously irreverent."
-- Elliott Hester, author of Adventures of a Continental Drifter
and the bestselling Plane Insanity
"I blame myself."
-- Shirley Buslik, Gary's mother
"I'll be reading, then I'll just start laughing...I love it!"
-- Anita Dunham-Potter, travel columnist, MSNBC.com
"A mordantly funny, sharply observed assault on the islands by a gifted writer off his meds."
-- J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals
"For 254 seriously funny pages, this University of Illinois at Chicago literature and creative writing teacher recounts the highlights of a couple of decades' worth of travel around the islands. He reminisces about watching cockfighting in Grenada, stalking Hemingway's ghost in Cuba and those 'Midnight Express' moments while trying to smuggle Cuban stogies out of St. Martin."
