Sam Hopkins fights back when he sees bullies harrassing Jennifer, an eccentric schoolmate who, he learns, is having terrifying hallucinations about demons, death, and destruction which may just come true unless Sam can stop them.
Sam Hopkins is not a bad kid but on a training run that he hopes will start to get him into good enough shape to join his school's award winning track team, he has a dangerous run in with a gang of thieves. He starts to hang out with them and they start to teach him how to pick locks, break into cars and steal them. A chance meeting with the strange, younger sister of the school's track team star, makes Sam take a stand against the thugs that have befriended him. He now has a new friend, not just strange but downright weird. Jennifer has strange dreams and hallucinations that seem to prophecy some terrible things happening. No one believes them and in a race against time, Sam must make some dangerous decisions to find the truth, as crazy as that truth seems to be.
This book is a fast and entertaining read and is geared towards the young teen reader. The plot moves fast and the climax at the end reaches a satisfying conclusion. The supernatural elements add strength to the story but it's the truth of who the "demons" are that turns out to be shocking.
