Hack has always been an admirer of the outdoor lifestyle of his cover artist Jonny M.’s Bro Joe and wrote the Junior Ranger series of book in tribute to him. But when Hack discovered that Joe was also a writer (and a much better one at that), he was consumed with jealousy and wrote this rip-off of The Shining with a thinly-veiled representation of Joe as the central character to try and discredit him.