Summary: | For twenty years, Alex Chapman has been at war with his great-uncle James, popularly known as "The Tyrant." Disillusioned and ill-tempered, Alex believes James has destroyed his chances in life when things do not "turn out" for him. Alex seems destined never to amount to anything more than an embittered dreamer, until the night he runs into the simple mechanic Burton Tucker. When Burton says he has just sold James Chapman a winning lottery ticket worth thirteen million dollars, Alex immediately knows that his uncle must never see the money.
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