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Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.

When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America, with a foreword by Tom Bissell. "To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other." --Stephen King,...