Labor Days, Volume 2: Just Another Damn Day — Philip Gelatt

In this globe-trotting comedic misadventure, Benton 'Bags' Bagswell, charming loser, drunken prognosticator, and loutish every-man, has decided to track down the Face of History, shadowy leader of a vast conspiracy. To do this, Bags has enlisted the help of an expanding cast of odd-balls and misfits, including his troubled girlfriend Victoria and the ever-over-the-top spy Rick Stryker. Bags and his team take the world by storm, hunting their foe across Europe and eventually to America. But the closer they get to a final confrontation, the closer Bags comes to realizing that fate has more in store than any of them could anticipate and that he might not be the hero of this story at all.