Schreck stumbles in round three of his series featuring guidance counselor and ex-boxer Duffy Dombrowski (after 2008’s TKO
). When a client of Duffy’s at Jewish Unified Services, 28-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Karl Greene, starts to predict terrorist attacks that actually happen, Duffy and Karl set out to stop evildoers intent on spoiling the Notre Dame football season opener as well as executing a Columbine-style massacre at either McDonough High or Vorhees High, Duffy’s and Karl’s respective alma maters. Worried about his own sanity after a recent hit to the head during a casual boxing bout, Duffy also enlists Karl in an effort to liberate the poor young dogs at a basset-hound puppy mill. Duffy’s basset, Al, lends a paw in this operation. The humor in this far-fetched mystery jars too often with the decidedly unfunny topic of domestic terrorism. (Dec.)
