When world leaders burst into flame like a string of firecrackers, the President calls on a renegade former agent with a history of mental problems. Otto "Aardvark" White possesses a unique quality. He's lucky. What Otto discovers in the mountains of Colorado will blow your mind and change the way you look at the world. "Mike Baron's Whack Job is pretty freaking brilliant." -James Owen "Mike Baron writes like the bastard offspring of James Crumley and Rex Miller, in prose so hardboiled you'll break a tooth."-Jeff Marriote "Mike Baron brings his limitless imagination to prose with a fast-moving tale that feels like an action movie captured in type."-Paul Levitz