Lunatics

Philip Horkman owns a pet shop he calls The Wine Shop, and on Sundays he referees children's soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman sees himself as the only rational person among a crowd of fools, and he is having a dreadful day. When their paths collide, a rapid string of events forces both men to run for their lives, with the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man in a Chuck E. Cheese costume all in pursuit.

The book is written by a team known as the League of Comic Justice, which combines a bestselling humorist who won the Pulitzer Prize with a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Where the chase leads is hard to predict. The route mixes inventive ideas with plenty of disorder, and it suits readers who want exactly that kind of comic ride.