About The Bards of Paradise Greg Bascom is the author of the action-adventure, adult romance novel Lawless Elements, winner of the gold medal in the Faulkner-Wisdom creative writing competition. Greg left Connecticut as a teenager to work in Japan, Southeast Asia and Latin America. He survived a car crash on the road to Bangkok in 1967, head trauma in the Philippines and subsequent brain surgery in Hawaii in 1977, and being the star hostage in a plane hijacking in Honduras in 1982. He has settled in Costa Rica to relate his adventures in traveler's tales and fiction. Michael Crump has taught a...