The first book in a series of four satires of the 1950’s and how it was those "Baby Boomers" grew up to create today’s America.

In 1950’s West Texas, best friends Tim and Hect come upon an abandoned junkyard. Rabbit hunting loses its entertaining appeal for a game of War with their .22 semi-automatic rifles. Their fun suddenly ends as a thoughtless prank turns into a ghastly crime, or so they believe.

Hect has the idea to set fire to a shack for a final thrill of the day. Tim agrees, although he thinks the objective is a wasp nest inside a mesquite bush. Hect fills an empty bottle with gas from a wrecked truck and hurls the Molotov cocktail at the shed which erupts in a fireball. Shocked by his friend’s target, Tim gapes in horror as a blazing figure appears in the shack's fiery window. He and the human torch gaze at each other a terrifying moment until sirens from the direction of town interrupt them. Believing their prank may land them a seat on “Sparky,” the pet name for the electric chair in Huntsville, the boys decide their only choice is to become fugitives from the law.

Armed with dogged determination and a forehead-slapping sense of naivete, the boys flee into the harsh West Texas desert. Because of their pampered lifestyles up to now. the two could not be less prepared to face hunger, thirst, life on the road, weird street people, and a world of poverty and slums, plus the mean streets of Juarez, Mexico