内容简介：
Jack Gordon, the war hero, was sent home after twenty years of service in the Army. He was wounded, his left side burned away. Heas been drunk for over a year to fight the pain of what happened to him. He came home to an empty house. His mom and dad were killed in a car crash two weeks after he was brought back to the States. He has been home for two months now and no one has come to see or check on him, not even his sister, Kathy. When someone does come, itas someone Jack has hated most of his life, Larry Rider, and with him is his wife from hell, Helen. Rider was the school bully, and they had never liked each other. The only time the two had a run in was over Sharon Hansen, and it had been a good one.