The exploding memoir

"Eddie Knox skips Pennsylvania before the local authorities can send him to reform school. After he settles in San Francisco's Chinatown, the mysterious Dr. Kublar takes him under his wing. What seems a benign gesture, gifting him with a job running "errands," plunges him into a quest for an ancient stone tablet with powerful occult secrets. Now Eddie is the unwitting courier, cautiously threading his way between the authorities and the local tongs, against the backdrop of San Francisco's underground music scene"--