Inshalla Gringo

A sixteenth century Spanish sailor’s chest reopens a four century old, sometimes contentious, buddy story fueled by the lost gold of the Conquistadors. Inshalla (Arabic for God willing) Gringo is one of a series of Govón and D’Arcy adventures and mysteries that unfold in the rainforest of the Amazon, the shadows of the Andes, and even the Arabian deserts. Headhunters chase Diego de Valverde and his conquistadors out of the western Amazon, and into the Andean foothills. Among the conquistador’s men are scribes are friends the Jew Juçe de Govón and the Moor Aziz al Jubail. The Jivaro catch up to the invaders and their purloined gold for a reckoning in a foothill cavern. Somehow, the scribes escape the fate of the Spanish and make their way to a Galleon homeward bound along the so-called “River of Gold”. Centuries later, Govon’s chest re-surfaces in an Amazon poker game, attended by a strange wartime partnership of rival Nazi and Allied men, including F.A. Green (once Govón), his partner Dick D’Arcy and a pair of Jubail brothers. The Jubails are beginning construction, unusually, on an Amazon mosque. Together, they carry on the old relationship, and the search for enduringly hot gold continues. In more current times, filmmakers Jock Green and his partner Bubba D’Arcy travel to Saudi Arabia to film an ambitious documentary for Jubail brothers Ali and Maher. In time the ARPC (Amazon River Poker Club) is reborn and Green and D’Arcy find themselves flying back to Brazil to make a documentary about an unusual mosque, but it’s not long until they are looking for a late payment and an Andean cave perhaps harboring a missing fortune in gold that everyone seems to know about and want. This is a story about cross cultural and enduring friendships and about the villains everyone loves to hate – Conquistadors, Amazon headhunters, and Nazis. It is a story that takes place on some of the world’s great canvases – the Amazon rainforest, the great Arabian deserts, the great al Qateef Oasis and the Andes Mountains. And, it takes place along great bodies of water including the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the mighty Amazon and it’s tributaries. .