Goodreads asked Larry Verstraete:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Larry Verstraete My recent book, 'Missing in Paradise', is fiction, a new form for me, and something I've worked on here and there for the past 10 years. It's hard to say exactly where the idea to write about two friends on the hunt for treasure started, but I am sure it had a lot to do with my own boyhood. I was one of those kids who dug in the family garden, convinced I'd stumble upon pirate gold between the rows of tomatoes. Either that or dig a hole to China! Writing this book was a way of living out my own fantasies, I suppose.

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