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This was a “memory piece” from Hack’s teenage years when he and a girlfriend would taunt the bums in New York’s Bowery district by shamelessly making out in front of them. The bums finally had enough and surrounded the pair, let the girl go but made Hack stay and French kiss every one of them until he’d learned his lesson. They were surprised when he showed up for the next three weeks in a row for more lessons.
Hack wrote this after watching his cover artist Jonny M.’s pug Boris effortlessly pick up women by playing sad songs on a local dive bar’s tinny piano. After his set, Boris would take one of them to a table in a dark table and have them scratch him behind the ears until their fingers cramped.
This book is not related to Hack’s later novel with the same title. He just writes so many books that he repeats himself a lot.
Hack’s friend Rosanna De Candia was outraged when she saw the cover of “Junior Ranger and the Essential Workers” and realized that she had been depicted as a doctor wearing scrubs, since she only tolerated being pictured on Hack’s book covers if she was shown in the scantiest of attire. Hack quickly wrote this follow-up in which a character based upon Ms. De Candia is naked throughout the entire story to make it up to her.
Hack revived the Junior Ranger series as an uncharacteristic call for unity after the nationwide protests against police violence after the murder of George Floyd. As he was walking through one of the protests to deliver the manuscript to his publisher, Hack was brutally beaten by police officers.
Hack wrote this after going to a bar with his friend Glenn Simon to meet women and Simon took off with one early in the evening. He wound up marrying the young lady while Hack spent the night washing glasses because he rang up a $400 bar tab and his credit card was declined.