Description
James Flynn is an expert shot, a black belt in karate, fluent in four languages and irresistible to women. He’s also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill.
When the hospital is acquired by a new HMO, Flynn is a convinced that the Secret Service has been infiltrated by the enemy. He escapes to save the day and carjacks a young orderly named Sancho.
This crazy day trip turns into a very real adventure when Flynn is mistaken for an actual secret agent. Paranoid delusions have suddenly become reality, and now it’s up to a mental patient and a terrified orderly to bring down an insecure, evil genius bent on world domination.
Flynn, the cool American protagonist who assumes the identity of a “Double OO” British secret agent, is certainly a character. He downplays every dangerous situation while trying to assuage his anxious-ridden team, Sancho and Dulcie, as they accompany him (not by choice) along a Quixotic but dangerous trail.
As the story develops, it taunts you to repeatedly ask yourself the question, “Is Flynn for real or is everything a figment of his wild imagination?”
YOLO is a must read.