Charging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from haight-Ashbury's summer of love into the darkness of 1980s manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel p...Charging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from haight-Ashbury's summer of love into the darkness of 1980s manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the amo -- the alliance of magicians and outlaws. An assortment of sages Sharpen Daniel's wide-eyed outlook until he has the concentration of a card shark zeta master, via apprenticeships in meditation, safecracking, poker, and the art of walking through walls.