In my experience as a student, I have read a countless number of stories for both school and pleasure. While I made an honest attempt to enjoy the novels assigned to me by my teachers to the same degree as those I have chosen myself, I must admit that most novels did not come close to Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor or Jeffery Deaver's The Blue Nowhere. This is especially the case when my deadline …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…goal to become the Welterweight Champion of the World. When Peakay has returned home, he finds his mother a born-again Christian, who encourages him to allow the Lord into his heart, a task which he strongly opposes and takes every possible measure to resist. Peakay also meets "Doc" a German professor of music and a cactus fanatic, and enters public school, where his boarding school experience has placed him years ahead of the other students