"I robbed a bank. I got away with it. It wasn't even that hard." Recent college graduate Joel Howard, former bench warmer for his small town college team, is optimistic about his future with his out-of-his-league girlfriend and a job prospect with a local insurance agency. But things don't work out the way he plans when his girlfriend dumps him and he remains stuck at his unfulfilling position at the local shoe store in the mall. Desperately seeking a change of pace from his father's unrelenting nagging, Joel hatches a plan to rob the mall's bank on the night of Black Friday, 1987. Joel has always been lucky, despite the current string of bad luck. Has his luck run out? Or will it return in time to get him out of trouble? Lucky Duck is a comedic crime novel perfect if you're looking for something with the flavor of a John Hughes film from those 80s and 90s tomes like Risky Business or Breakfast Club.