"Jobs are for schmucks," says Jinx, the small town gambler in "The Dude Who Wanted Out." For Bill Bevins, who loses his own job selling real estate, despite a booming housing market, those words could not ring more true. Bill is a man determined to find his own way and on his own terms, even it means a dead-end job working security. A buddy has a questionable business deal. His ex-wife wants him to work for her boyfriend. Bill wants to be a writer but figures he doesn't have what it takes. By the time romance comes into his life, Bill seems out of options. A story of one man's search for answers.

Mike Reuther is the author of the Amazon bestselling book, Nothing Down, as well as other novels and books on writing. A journalist, baseball nut and flyfisherman, he makes his home with his family in central Pennsylvania near some of his favorite trout streams.