There isn't much about Skip's life that's going the way he
imagined it should at his age. In fact, he isn't who he
thought he would be at all. His job as a security systems
salesman is less than inspiring and contains no hope of
bettering his future, his economy apartment leaves much to
be desired and doesn't even have a view, and his vehicle is
anything but a Cadillac. The only thing in his life that
gives him any real joy is the woman he loves, albeit an
unrequited love, and his best friend James. So when James
proffers another one of his harebrained, get-rich-quick
ideas, Skip is faithfully along for the ride. After all,
what does he have to lose?
Crazy adventures are nothing new in Skip's life -- having
James as a best friend almost makes it a guarantee, but
becoming involved in a murder...that's not something Skip
and James could have ever imagined. But when the duo
becomes determined to find their fortune as movers, their
lives are suddenly turned upside down. Late-night
stakeouts, visits from thugs whose only mission in life is
to cause bodily harm, staring down the barrel of a gun, car
chases, getting shot at, buildings being blown up... Who
would have thought that finding a severed appendage in a
box of mail they'd been hired to move would stir up such a
hornets' nest of trouble?
It's not until lives are hanging in the balance that Skip
begins to realize that there are things in his life that
are worth fighting for and that he's the only person who
can exact a positive direction for his future. There's
nothing like a loaded gun in your face to help you make
those hard life choices and show that your life really does
have STUFF TO DIE FOR.
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the
fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap'n Crab,
Skip spends his days selling?or rather, attempting to sell?
security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b)
have nothing they care to protect.
James and Skip aren't
upwardly mobile, but they're about to get literally mobile
when James spends a surprise inheritance on a white box
truck. An investment in the future, he surmises, as these
two are starting a business?solely devoted to hauling other
people's stuff.
But the fledgling business takes a
shocking turn when James and Skip unload the contents of
their first moving job and find some unexpected cargo?a
bloody human finger.
James and Skip must scramble to stay
one step ahead of the perpetrators of the gruesome crime in
this witty, gritty mystery about big dreams, big ideas?and
big trouble.
Instead of chasing the American dream, James
and Skip will be running for their lives.
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