Brian D. Garrity

Lars Quickbreath has problems. He has awaken from one nightmare, into another. The world is a seething cauldron of madness, ruled by a demented despot, policed by privacy invading technologies, where terrorism and wars are an everyday occurrence, and militarism has all but overrun civilian population. Swept by circumstance, Lars finds himself on a bizarre odyssey through the world he thought he knew, plagued by questions. What is the Government's interest in Lars? Why does an omnipotent artificial intelligence seek him? And who, or what, has stolen Lars' dreams?

You've never seen the 70's like this before. Travel back in time, with a band of unlikely young River Rats on the upper Mississippi, to the Bicentennial summer of 1976. From tempestuous all-night beach parties and waterways filled with roaring outboards, to forgotten back-roads, muscle cars, turbulent rivalries, and na ve erotic explorations, they live life on the edge, heedless of the consequences, through the epic seasons of a year that will forever change their lives, in a pre-AIDS, pre-internet, pre-screen addicted middle America, on the final cusp of innocence.