Wow. An intense novel. Little Jonnie likes Superman so his Mom, Sara gives him a blue blanket to be his cape. His older brother kids him about it because the real cape is suppose to be red. Chris, their dad, tells them it's time for a DQ ice cream and off they go. While waiting for their order a man comes up behind them with a gun and demands money from Eileen, the boys babysitter, working the register. She gives him all she has but the man demands more or he will kill her. Chris steps up to try to calm the guy and gets shot instead. The boys try to get the bleeding to stop. Jonnie takes his cape off to save his father but it didn't work. They watch him die. In the meantime there is Jacob who has this special gift that lets him know what people want, let's him know what the weather is going to do (which helps his job as a weather forecaster), let's him know how to win bets in the office. Suddenly he is having strange images and speaking things out loud that he has no control over, such as saying out of the blue, "Superman's Cape" while drinking at the bar with friends from work. You've got to read the book to find out how things work out. ( )