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When Chris's college-age brother escapes from a mental hospital, the seventeen-year-old, accompanied by two female friends, travels cross-country to find him. Cam is discovered living with a dangerous militia group. In this somewhat slow-paced story, Chris's flippant narration seems at odds with the serious issues of mental illness and militias.