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<b>1967</b><br>At fifteen, traveling alone, Jake Garrity scrambles to stay ahead of a nationwide manhunt. He is forced to temporarily suppress the pain of his father’s recent death. The Commandant at the military school where his father had him enrolled was succinct: The mine exploded, his death was instantaneous, he never knew what hit him. Sorry for your loss cadet. Vietfuckingnam. Jake has no other family. The military school was his dad’s idea. The time has come. In three months, Jake is in the wind, another statistic for the FBI’s runaway database. It’s January, he has until June to find his way to San Francisco, the Summer of Love, the epicenter for the new counter-culture, a place he hopes to discover how he fits into this world, and a reason for his father’s sacrifice.<br><br><b>1997</b><br>Portland police receive an anonymous tip about a body buried under the right field stands in Multnomah Stadium. The historic Portland ballpark is scheduled for demolition in two weeks. The secret was safe.<br><br>JT and Griff, two homeless teens, occasionally sleep in the stadium’s catacombs. Freaked out when they hear about the body, they pray it isn’t one of their friends. When the coroner announces the remains have been down there at least thirty years, they’re relieved, yet intrigued: intrigued enough to pay the library a visit, always a safer, dryer venue than<br>panhandling in the freezing rain.<br><br>Digitized newsprint in the library’s microfilm readers is filled with three repeating headlines about: a prank-playing, anti-war protester the press nickname the Phantom Patriot; a vengeance-seeking cop who swears<br>to kill the traitor; and the mysterious disappearance of a fifteen-year-old vendor who tripped down a long flight of concrete stairs and died. And then disappeared.<br><br>For months the news alternates between the increasingly dangerous pranks played by the Phantom Patriot, the vengeance seeking cop, and the search for the missing vendor. With the discovery of the body, the three ancient story lines are about to collide.
