When it comes to relationships Colin Singletons type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times to be exact. On a road trip miles from home this anagram-happy washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail and an overweight Judge Judy - loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship avenge Dumpees everywhere and finally win him the girl.

Love friendship and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.