""'You got the worst luck in the world, punk -- always in the wrong place at the wrong time ' Bash was yelling at me when she brought me home from the emergency room. Here I was, causing trouble again. Somehow, no matter what I was up to, I always managed to step into it...."" Max Zajack's childhood years are far from the best of his life. Thrown into a world of a tempestuous immigrant family and a controlling Catholic school, Max sees only two means...