Near Misses A Private Eye Story

NEAR MISSES pirouettes around a dilettante P.I. tail job involving a CIA set-up in Florida and on Nevis.

Bucky Boon: blunders are his bread and butter.

Neurotic, kleptomaniac, obsessive-compulsive, dilettante private eye, lecturer, womanizer, self-aggrandizer and CIA spook, Mr. Steadmont Bucky Boon is up for anything and prepared for nothing that is about to come his way, turning his life and his luck on its head, as he dazzles babes and dodges bullets all the way from Tampa down to the tropical island of Nevis without missing a chance to stumble his way into good fortune, chasing down a sensuous sensation Ms. Susan Sanders and discovering his own secret past along the way. Sidestepping both the Nevis Police and US Intelligence, he bungles his way onto the trail of his true heritage and identity - and, as luck would have it, into the arms of some shy love.
His adventure is a raucous road-movie worthy of the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, and the Coen Brothers all rolled in.

In modern physics NEAR MISSES are coincidences and are referred to as the weak yet dominant form of causality. It would seem dilettantism is just another manifestation of this subtle yet pervasive force, which is none other than the hidden and ever mighty mover of all things.