It Just Happened

<p>Billy Burton is a strange boy. Or at least that's what everyone tells him. He lives inside his head; thinking and thinking and dreaming and scheming. But this year-1973-his twelfth year on earth is like no other. He is constantly under threat from the school psychopath; his dad is under investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Watergate; the odd girl across the street has taken a keen interest in Billy (and him in her); Bob Woodward is after his dad (unless Billy can stop him); his dog (Mr. Pooch) is out of control and cannot be found; Billy has come into possession of a book entitled <em>The Happy Hooker</em> (and intends to decipher the meaning of all things sexy); he realizes his new (and only) friend is a juvenile delinquent; and he has somehow come to know the iconoclastic physicist Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winner) whose motto is <em>Damn the torpedoes!</em>-which has become Billy's motto too.</p><p><br></p><p>1973 is going to be a wild ride for one Billy Burton.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the author:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Phil Joanou has directed feature films (Three O'clock High-State of Grace-U2: Rattle and Hum etc. etc.) as well as documentaries commercials some television and several music videos.</p><p><br></p><p>This is his first novel.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p> </p><p><br></p>