“Seventeen-year-old Amon Schute is social drek. He’s sneering, jeering, and hateful. He proves it with ostentatious displays of filthy jeans, long, matted hair, body piercings, and tattoos. He’s exactly the kind of kid you’d expect to spend his entire adult life in lockup. Sixteen-year-old Coy Minyon is a social cipher. He’s weak, meek, and fearful. He proves it with a timorous mask of ultra-conservative clothing, neatly groomed hair, unobtrusive appearance, and a permanent muted existence that makes him invisible to the world. He’s exactly the kind of kid you’d expect to spend his entire adult life in total obscurity. Amon and Coy are best friends. Together they plan to gun down a bunch of people in a public place and then off themselves in a blaze of everlasting glory.” (04/30/08)