Carmine McNally is a character who is always trying to roll with the punches. Just when everything is going right in his life, he has to start all over. Life and reality just keep getting in the way. If one is looking for a book about sports, friendship, music, drugs, the military, war, customer service, love, passion, life and death, then this is for you. Carmine tells his story from his studio apartment in Manhattan. He goes back in time (1998) and stops in his present time (2007). All he wants is to talk to you and for you to get to know him. Just maybe, one can relate to his life and struggle to keep moving.