Thomas J. McGoldrick was born in 1943 and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He was educated by strict Sisters of Providence and Benedictine Monks. He pursued a colorful and adventurous lifestyle. He hired on with Army Audit Agency traveling extensively on and off the job. Worked and lived in 6 different US states, West Germany, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and the Marshall Islands. Traveled as a tourist to Canada, Mexico, India, Hong Kong, Macao, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Saipan, Guam, Wake Island, The Federated States of Micronesia, Greece, Ibiza Spain, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Martinique and ended retired and living in the in the Philippine Islands. He always went native to learn the most he could from the local people. His writings are of his travel and living experiences with the peoples of those countries. He knows the best part of each adventure is what happens along the way to the destination. Life is filled with opportunities to experience people, places and things and the author did his best to enjoy life all the time. I’m sure you will enjoy these books as much as I did re-living the experiences as I enjoyed writing them. Friends, reading the drafts said they couldn’t put them down and just had to keep on reading to discover the next adventure. Also check out Mobipocket.com for all my books as e-books. Go to mobipocket with Google or Yahoo search and search on McGoldrick. And, go to http://www.lulu.com/tjmcgoldrick7 and to http://mcgoldrickadventurenovels.blogspot.com/ for previews and for links to publishers and book sellers.