"Well, my best friend was just murdered by a government conspiracy to suppress public knowledge of America's cooperation with extraterrestrials and experimentation with alien technology—but to answer your question, I'm looking forward to the prom," the outcast Truman tells the school psychologist. Ever felt that there is something…wrong with the world around you? Truman was a normal high school senior growing up in the quaint town of Smith, New Mexico (population 31,313), floating through a lazy summer when he met and befriended Ethan Howe, an eccentric out-of-towner who thought that the moon landing had been faked on a sound stage in Burbank, fluoride was a mind control substance, and that there was a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, a meta-theory that would encompass everything from vaccines to 9/11 to Roswell—a theory that would explain everything, including their own humanity. After Ethan’s sudden death of a suspicious drug overdose, the previously apathetic young man and potential girlfriend Avril proceed to get involved in a series of escalating dangerous situations and increasingly bizarre characters, from a very old Nazi scientist who worked on the government’s saucer research to mobs of men in black suits, as the two teens fight the impending future. Talk back: jrichardsingleton.blogspot.com