About Jerry Gerald

​I was born and raised in Grand Rapids Michigan, attended Western Michigan University where I achieved my Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Marketing and General Business. After being in the corporate world for 30 plus years, I decided to work for myself and I built a successful company in Houston Texas. My children primarily run the business now while I ventured out into writing my first novel Baru. I have traveled the Caribbean and Central America extensively, eventually buying a villa on the South Central Pacific side near Dominical Costa Rica. The inspiration for the purely fictional work - Baru came to light one day on a flight back to Houston over the expansive Talamanca mountain range where way down below sat a remote village of the Boruca Indian people. These people live a life of self-subsistence, completely off the grid with a tribal-like reliance on one another for basic needs and survival. This village still exists today. How could that be? Who are these people? Why do they live this way today? Why do they stay, or do they choose to leave?

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ABOUT THE BOOK: 

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Baru is an action adventure story with a twist of mystery and suspense. There is love and romance, coming of age, escape, peril, wild animals, poisonous creatures, cops and drug lords, human trafficking, survival and family found strength.

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Set in the 1970's while traversing from Houston Texas through the rain forest of Costa Rica, imagine for a moment you're a young man in prison for killing your step father, meeting an exotic young woman, escaping together while a DEA Detective and a Texas Ranger are hot on your trail with orders to bring you back dead or alive. Put in a few hungry jungle creatures along the way with other perils surrounding you, add a jealous drug lord in the mix and you'll have quite a story to tell, I call it Baru. I think you'll like it.