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His mother gone missing, his father overwhelmed, a young boy is abandoned to a San Francisco orphanage. When his best efforts to contact his father ends in disaster, he's labeled a troublemaker and channeled into juvenile detention. There, his real-world schooling begins.
Fifteen years later, a scruffy young man stands on the side of a two-lane country highway thumbing a ride. Not in any rush to get anywhere in particular, he practices blues licks on an ancient, blown-out harmonica. His casual approach to most things belies a keen intelligence, fearlessness, and nearly irresistable charm. Peter Brennan is on his own now and the tricks, the fake outs, and the hustles he's learned coming up are now his tools of the trade. And the trade, for Pete, is nothing less than survival.
Fifteen years later, a scruffy young man stands on the side of a two-lane country highway thumbing a ride. Not in any rush to get anywhere in particular, he practices blues licks on an ancient, blown-out harmonica. His casual approach to most things belies a keen intelligence, fearlessness, and nearly irresistable charm. Peter Brennan is on his own now and the tricks, the fake outs, and the hustles he's learned coming up are now his tools of the trade. And the trade, for Pete, is nothing less than survival.
386 pages, Paperback
Published May 20, 2021
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