Imagine you and your best friend head off on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that you get into a fight -- the cheap s.o.b. won't kick in any cash. Imagine you stop riding together. Imagine you reach Seattle then come home alone, still p.o-ed.

Imagine the FBI is now at your college dorm. Imagine finding out that your former best friend never made it home. And imagine that he had actually been carrying over $20,000 in cash with him. Imagine your world shifting. A tour-de-force about biking, friendship, and the depths of loyalty by a debut novelist who has in fact biked cross country.