I have read it and reviewed it at length elsewhere. I will only touch on those points mentioned above:
1) How much embellishment of the truth there is I am not sure, but what is clear is that he has compressed his most interesting experiences of a decade or more into what reads as a two-year timespan. One pointer to this is the inconsistency of peso pricing, drawn from very different epochs in the DR economy.
2) Although I have a reasonable knowledge of Puerto Plata and Sos?a, I hardly recognised any locations. That may be because they are all long closed (the action in the book appears to terminate about a decade ago) or it may be that he deliberately disguised them.
3) The so-called "philosophical discussions" are the bar-stool ravings of semi-educated habitual drinkers and the already drunk and have no intrinsic worth. They do however accurately and amusingly portray the male chauvinistic tone such conversations tend to take as well as the "I could have been a contender" chip-on-the-shoulder anecdotes one hears so often from drunken ex-pats.
4) The book is no use as a local guide or primer on living in the DR. For the latter get Ginnie Bedggood's "Quisqueya".
5) The title is misleading and the ending is both a cop-out and quite insightful, in that after a decade of more of bedding Dominican chicas and commending their qualities the hero eventually plumps for a "North American" type beauty queen as his "perfect" whore.
6) It is a couple of years since I read it but I believe I am correct in saying that there is no mention of Haitians, Haitian culture, Haitian whores or Haitian workers, something that would be impossible to omit if one were writing an account of the North Coast today.
7) If you are a single male who likes the chicas you may find this a mildly amusing read. The only chapter of "professional" standard is an account of a drunken burial at sea which had me laughing aloud. I cannot see anyone else who would be too interested.
8) All the American (U.S.) characters in it come across as utterly obnoxious. Loud, mean, spiteful and bullying. Whether that was intended as satire or whether the author takes those qualities for granted I am not sure.
9) The author "vanity" published it himself because no conventional publisher would touch it with a bargepole. It isn't good enough and it is too politically incorrect. To get a copy go to
iUniverse - Self Publishing Company
10) The book is quite nicely produced, well-printed on good paper with decent margins unlike most "vanity" productions.