
When thieves stole his beloved commuter bike on a busy street in broad daylight, Patrick Symmes snapped — and set out on a cross-country plunge into the heart of America’s bike-crime underbelly.

You can’t buy it in any store, can’t send away for it online, can’t meet the author (there are thousands), and you probably won’t be able to read it if you do find it. On the trail of an underground global legend: the everywhere-and-nowhere travel bible of Israel’s combat-fatigued, footloose vagabond youth…

Six weeks, I told my wife. All the way to heaven and then home. Perhaps I would fail in some, or every, way. But one must go oneself to know the truth.