Bøger af Bob Jonas

When 13-year-old Ben Caplan comes apart at school once again, he is given a choice-expulsion, military school, or what's behind door number three. Who would have guessed-a rolling rubber room, in the cab of a 70-semi truck, at 70 mph? To top it off, he's thrown in with the two guys he loves the most-who happen to be the guys who have brought him to the brink. Then Voilà, a Hail Mary intervention never tried in a school counselor's grab bag of desperate measures. The trip to Las Vegas with Dad during spring break, had already been planned, but now, with the command appearance of union kingpin Gramps, the Committee for a Better Ben has been expanded. With a whole lot of time and road, the boys have a week to get it figured out or it's bye-bye Ben. With only one safety valve, a phone-a-friend number to his favorite teacher, the future looks like a seven ten split. These are the guys in need of a head adjustment, but who gets sent to Group Therapy, with Mr. Shryke, AKA, the Shrikazoid, and a bunch of the school's real losers? Incredible as it might seem, truckin' therapy begins to have an effect. Storytelling, the Caplan birthright, begins its connective magic almost immediately. Inspired by an oral history assignment, serendipitously assigned immediately before the truckin' therapy has been mandated, the Caplan's begin to understand how the timing couldn't have been better. As the miles blow by, the Caplan archives roll out story after story, gold for Ben's project. Sadly, while the mother lode remains deeply buried, nobody is ready to do the heavy lifting. In lieu of the stories that need to be told, new ones keep popping up-at a medieval themed casino where Ben pulls Excalibur out of a stone and wins a free dinner. Another, where a frenzied grandma type sporting pink hair and Bermuda shorts, drops dollar chips into a gigantic slot machine faster than she can pull down the lever. And so many more.>Maybe the bad guys came knocking again.

Sixteen-year-old Zane Walker was lucky the first time: hero, reformer, media sensation, escape artist-and blasphemer. His survival of numerous near death experiences was chalked up to teenage Teflon. Casting online religious edicts to a worldwide Islamic audience was not a typical high school media project, especially from an American school in Saudi Arabia. When he was found out, he thought his life was over. Miraculously, authorities discovered that he had been used, set up by a terrorist cell to help create global tension on the Internet. The worldwide condemnation, regardless of his innocence, would remain a powerful memory, in every corner of the earth, wherever anyone had a computer and used social media. When he and his family were flown to safety, given a second chance in Germany, he was naïve to hope his fame would die down. Thousands of miles out of harms way, the future looked bright. All he had to do was keep his head down and stay out of trouble. But something had changed in Zane Walker. During his time in Saudi, where he constantly dreamed of returning home to a normal life, his Internet shenanigans-righteous as he wished them to be-were catapulting him toward a radically different life, one he would cautiously come to embrace. As his new life unfolds, Zane is still under the illusion that his shield of invincibility is still working. Why wouldn't it: Idyllic Germany, with its cobblestone streets, half-timbered houses, and red tiled roofs? For Zane Walker, this new adventure in a sleepy little university town rapidly becomes a firestorm of danger and intrigue, not necessarily a bad thing for a guy with newly minted nerves of steel-unless you're trying to keep a low profile.Never did he imagine that his former media persona, the infamous Grand Mufti Achmed Ali, would become a closeted hero to the fascist, right wing, neo-Nazi movement. He is now marked, not for what he had done, but for who he has become.