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"Vernon Gregory Little's best friend has commited a high school massacre of 16 of his classmates and now Vernon is being wrongly implicated in the massacre. This book chronicles the demise of Vernon as circumstance and conjecture have him charged with being an accessory to the murders. Lally Ledesma shacks up with Vernon's ever embarrassing mother and sees the opportunity to strike it big in the media at Vernon's expense. As the townsfolk, the local police and the media circus gather against Vernon he absconds to Mexico after first visiting the girl of his dreams Taylor Figueroa. He hitchhikes to southern Mexico where he is tracked down by Lally and cruelly entrapped by Taylor who is now in Lally's pay. By now Vernon is wanted for countless other murders and the innocent is charged and subsequently commited to Death Row. On Death Row Lally's media company starts a Big Brother type reality tv phone in where the public watch 3 death row inmates and vote for the one they want to fry. The writing in this book sparkles and amuses page after page.
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John Marcel, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police story
Yes
Story of
- sympathetic "criminals" on the run
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- journalist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- touching of anatomy
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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