All Mike Good wanted was to make the world a happier place. Why did so many people want to arrest him? With Maui Vice hot on his trail and an opportunity to grow tons of consciousness-raising ganja, Mike takes his talents to Thailand. With the protection of an army general, a copacetic senator, and a greedy prime minister, what could go wrong? When the copacetic senator is chopped to pieces by a rival with Triad connections, Mike finds out. When his investigative reporter girlfriend Lily decides to take down Senator Evil, making the world happier takes a back seat to staying alive. As if evil politicians and murderous gangsters weren’t enough, an obsessed DEA agent and a deranged investigative reporter home in on Ganjaville. Can Mike harvest his crop without getting busted or murdered? And what about smuggling it across the Pacific to Hawaii? It won’t be easy, not with Hurricane Wikiwiki in his path. And that’s before the DEA, the Coast Guard, and the pirates show up. If you like wild adventures, snappy dialogue, quirky characters, exotic locations, and laughing out loud, you’ll love Ganjaville! Grab it now!
I love Mike Good, the character, AKA Señor Bueno, AKA Snap Schott. He's a good-hearted dude who's been rebelling against his CIA-entrenched parents and his Uncle Dick Nixon's war on drugs since his college days. I can relate to that!
His ambition to remain unambitious has taken him all over the globe, in search of the ideal, secluded, and secure place to put his natural green thumb to work, growing the most luscious, dankest bud the world has ever seen. Back in the day, he would have been my hero. I can relate to the simplest things becoming very complicated, too.
Ganjaville is the disturbing and riotous account of Snap Schott's latest semi-philanthropic endeavor in a remote village in Thailand. It is every bit the compelling story I expected.
Ganjaville has Schott meeting with all kinds of dangerous and entertaining complications to his plans for growing his crop to maturity and getting it to market. Illegal loggers, pirates, gangsters, murderous cops, dirty politicians, a very inept reporter, and worst of all, his sister, a federal agent who has taken sibling rivalry to the extreme, all interfere at the worst possible times.
The twists encountered in this series make it truly outstanding. All of the characters are well-defined and important to the story, no one more so than his gorgeous girlfriend, Lily Chen. I like how Lily is much more than just a beauty with convenient family connections in her relationship with Good. She's also his rival! He wants to write successful books chronicling his adventures, but Lily, hilariously, is a much better writer than he is and more successful, according to everyone.
This book in the Señor Bueno adventure series (may its volumes multiply forever) has delivered all the vicarious bliss, belly-laughs, and suspense that I can handle. Mike Good, the author, like his alter ego, always takes his readers on good trips, guaranteed to leave us smiling.
I was delighted to score an advance reader's copy of Ganjaville from the author. My enthusiastic endorsement is my own. It's a great book!
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More wild and whacky (baccy) escapades from Thailand to Hawaii in worthy sequel. Literally laughs on every page from groan inducing to laugh out loud belly laughs.