So what do you do when you have trashed your savings on your vinyl collection, gig tickets, watered down beer, motorway service station food, petrol, and generally destroyed your hearing so many times its unhealthy? You write about in the hope that someone somewhere will go, 'bloody hell I was at that gig, I did that, 'ere that's me.' You get the picture. P.S This is just a tip but don't buy this book if you like TV Reality shows, manufactured pop bands and you have no idea who Joe Strummer is.

Buff Carmichael is ten years old in 1943 when his father, Jimmy, takes him on what will be their last fishing trip together. Jimmy gives Buff "Mr. Dynamite," his treasured, hand-carved, "magic" lure. The next day, Jimmy ships off to war. And, never returns. Three years later, while fishing, Buff loses the lure in the depths of a dark, spooky river. Angry and heartbroken, he immediately vows to do whatever it takes to get it back. With the help of his friends, Buff invents ever-more elaborate ways to dive perilously deep into the dangerous river where he discovers much more than his lost lure....

World War I is over and Ellis Bando returns to his small Texas town broken physically and emotionally. Haunted by the brutality of his wartime experiences, his efforts to resume his life as a rancher are slow and difficult. He hopes his marriage to Maria will set his life on a positive course. In a fight he didn't start, he critically wounds the son of the richest man in the county. What happens next is a terrible accident. Or, so they all believe. But, Ellis is not sure. Gambling everything, he risks his life and his family's safety. Compelled to discover the truth.