Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring. So when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.

"Originally published as Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf, copyright 2010 by Rowohlt, Berlin Verlag GmbH"--T.p. verso.