Garrison Keillor put his radio-honed voice to work on this American novelBut Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable
.... unstable CIA 
agent must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager to ... of his comfort 
zone when the outside world bangs on his door and he can't contain his violent 
past.