?Greg, how do you get yourself in so much trouble, ? his mother always asked him. And he's done it in spades this time, crossing the country on a Greyhound with a twenty-three year old strip dancer named Cindy who's heard that her parents have died. Not one day later, she dies of an overdose. ?Relax, ? everyone but the town's sheriff tells him. So he raids the dead dad's refrigerator and bookshelf to find two cases of beer and enough drugs to buy a Mercedes. ?Relax, ? he tells himself. Then someone with a very unrelaxed shotgun tries to kill him while he's in the back yard puttering with dad's two six guns. And then that someone is dead. ?Relax, ? Cindy's old boyfriend tells him as they dump car and body into a bottomless quarry. One day later, Greg awakes in the play western town of Paradise with his six guns strapped to his legs like a gunslinger's best friend. And just guess what everyone tells him to do? It's lucky for Greg that some friendly smoke rings are willing to speak to him much like Socrates? daimon giving guidance. A most literate adventure following a ne?er do well who does well despite himself and the seemingly imploding and uploading situation in the western town known as ?Paradise.?