Black Dogs

Everybody has at least one friend that disappears for a few days, and when they come home, they have a ridiculous story to tell about their whereabouts. Usually the story is so epically exaggerated it is hard to believe that it actually happened, and you are not entirely convinced that it did. Black Dogs by Jason Buhrmester is a story that whether it is true or not, is extremely entertaining. Crack open a can of beer and put on your favorite Sabbath album, this book will hook you like a drug. The story is about a group of troubled teenagers trying to make money by doing illegal scams while living a rock and roll lifestyle. Their main goal is to rob their most hated band Led Zeppelin, while they are on tour in the United States. Once you find this out, you realize that you are in for a ride. Buhrmester creates a real rock and roll feel to these characters lifestyles, complete with booze, women and vinyl. The book starts off easy, the boys get drunk and rob houses of the girls that they are hooking up with. You never for a second think about them being terrible people, you only tap your finders anxiously waiting for them to just get out of the house while they still can! The story slowly leads you into the big plan. Led Zeppelin refuses to be paid by check after a concert, only cash. The boys’ plan is to take the cash after the concert before it can be put in a bank. To be able to get near that cash they have to steal a guitar in order to be able to get close to jimmy page. A 58’ Les Paul is a rare guitar that only 700 were made, a collectors item that jimmy page is willing to buy off of the boys. While their shenanigans unfold they get deeply tangled in a mess with motorcycle gangs and other robbers. The gang members want to kill them because they have accidentally stolen a safe while they were stealing the guitar. The contents of the safe are unknown but the gang members are willing to kill in order to get the safe back, and the person who has the unopened safe is holding it at ransom. These characters have so much luck, good and bad, the good when they find a way out of their messes, and bad luck when getting out of one thing gets them even more tangled in the situations that they have gotten themselves into. Even though breaking the law is wrong, you root for the robbers and anxiously await the outcomes of their adventures. You befriend the characters and what to be at the parties with them in ashtray smelling houses listening to rock getting wasted. You don’t even think twice that they could potentially be dangerous robbers, but you know that they are just really awesome dudes with long hair and beer stained tee shirts. You also don’t think twice about the danger that they get themselves into because they are so cunning that you as a reader know that they can get themselves out of the messes that they have created. They get in so many situations that are hard to get out of, many twists and turns a long the way make the story seem as though it is never going to end. The boys just get deeper and deeper into trouble. This book is so hard to handle but once you find your bad boy side of your personality, it is hard to put the book down. There are so many parts in this book where you will laugh, want to take a drink and just listen to some Black Sabbath. There is crude language, sexual references, drugs, breaking the law, and rock and roll. Perfect story if you want to feel like a badass for the night, only the night because you will finish this book in one sitting. Everybody says they should write a book about the best story they have, even if the story may or may not be true. This story was one of the only ones that is worthy of being a book. This story will grab you and you will not stop reading until it is over.