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When ageing, balding, duplicate editor Ernest "Sparky" Hemingway (no relationship) gets a call from the child of his Vietnam buddy George Washington (also no relationship), he is faced with an option. He can head out to Minneapolis to help her out of a jam or hang up the phone the phone - and this phone call gets the potential to turn Sparky's life ugly. He's were able to erect a fairly effective cocoon around himself during the last few years, and no amount of aggravation (or thoughts about his long-gone ex-wife) can get through his meticulously nurtured shell. He's very comfortable living (well, maybe just existing) in the tiny North Dakota town of Hardwoods, filled with its decidedly unusual people that just do what they have to in order to go along, where everybody recognizes everybody else's technique but pretends they don't really. He's left by itself, and that's the way Sparky prefers it. But you don't leave from a promises. Especially when that promises was made to somebody who pulled your butt out of more unfriendly and friendly fireplace than a hailstorm of June pests. You do not ask, you just do. His fellow veterinary buddy Doc Vacation (you guessed it, no relationship) fits him in Minneapolis and tosses him a .45, which comes in helpful when they come across a hard time with some gang-bangers who want the girl involved. They rescue Washington's teenage child, Tenisha, and Doc and Sparky split up, Sparky taking Tenisha and her feline back to his place. Between interacting with these gang-bangers, the Minneapolis police, who are hassling Sparky, Doc's brain tumor, and the typically white town Sparky lives in taking umbrage at the color of Tenisha's skin area - not forgetting having to haul a four-month-pregnant neighbor and her baby to his house for safety throughout a blizzard - Sparky considers he's handling himself pretty much. And then things commence to get weird.

Category: Mystery