When an ambiguously intentioned masked man kidnaps a drug addicted punk singer, it triggers a police investigation as well as a media circus.

"The Green Day story is very blunt: three school friends grow up together in a cluster of small blue-collar California towns, form a band ... and sell over 50 million albums. Except it wasn't that simple. Self-confessed latch-key kids, theirs was far from an easy ride." "Inspired by both the energy of British punk bands like the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks and cult American bands such as the Dead Kennedys and Husker Du, Green Day formed in 1989. The...

"Part memoir, part love song, and part tale about overcoming the odds, this is not a cancer story but an account of a teenager's life becoming derailed and the one thing that helped him pull it back together: music. Punk's not dead in rural West Virginia. In this blistering literary debut, it screams from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus--identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia....