Budding Prospects

Felix was a quitter: he quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up his paper round, turned his back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. Dropped out of college, side-stepped the army, abandoned school. Got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit work...

Until one day the opportunity to make half a million dollars, tax-free, presented itself. And he had to do only one thing: nurture 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.

But Felix hadn't reckoned on the neighbours, or the rats, the bears and the raccoons, or the rain (seemingly trivial interferences that take on a whole new magnitude when you're consuming the crop you've been hired to harvest): let alone Jerpbak, the drug-busting state trooper from hell.