While he was ice skating as a young boy in 1953, Johnny Smith fell and hit his head, knocking him unconscious. After waking, he advises the adult nearest to him Dont jump it no more, which befuddles the adult. Not long after, the adult tries to jump start his vehicle and is severely injured when the battery blows up. Thus begins a lifelong blessing/curse where Johnny finds that he has a rare ability to be able to read people simply by touching them. As a young high school teacher in eastern Maine, Johnny is involved in a serious car accident leaves him in a coma for 4 and a half years. On waking, Johnny finds that he has suffered a neural injury and that his ability to read people and see the future has increased. Along the way he is asked to help stop a serial rapist and killer and events lead him on a crash course with a corrupt politician, Gregg Stillson, whom Johnny has foreseen, if allowed to continue on his path toward becoming president, would start a nuclear war. Johnny must race against time and outside forces to stop Stillson from destroying the world.
A self professed Stephen King/Star Wars geek and pop culture neophyte, Scott tends to spend much of his time alone pondering life's greatest mysteries.....he also depends heavily on his son Liam, a great sounding board, to set him straight on Star Wars issues and gives him advice on what EXACTLY he's doing wrong.
