Ellis, a 14-year-old boy who lives by the Mississippi River, and his friend Naik found an abandoned boat on an island in the middle of the river, along with a mysterious homeless man, Mad, who was temporarily living on the boat. Madd claimed to have lived here when he was a child, and asked Eisley and Naik to help him because of his mobility problems. Ellis, whose family is on the verge of falling apart, trusts Madd almost instinctively, provides the latter with food, and learns that Madd and childhood sweetheart Jennifer have been infatuated with and murdered for many years. It turns out that Madd now...
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