Does catching bank robbers, discovering ancient Chinese tunnels, and making sacrifices for your best friends sound appealing? Then pick up a copy of "Project Sweet Life" by Brent Hartinger. In Hartinger's novel, there are three main characters: Dave, Victor, and Curtis. Dave is the narrator and the one who always seems to be caught in the middle of his two best friends' vastly different personas. Victor is the somewhat shy and geeky guy who has a rational line of thinking, Curtis on the other hand is loud and outgoing, possibly a compulsive liar, and doesn't think sensibly at all. The phrase "opposites attract" is much in play in the relationship between these three guys. The story begins when the three boys are put to the test when their hardworking fathers want them to get summer jobs. At only fifteen years old, and they couldn't be less excited. Then Curtis hatches a plan that involves lying to their parents by pretending they have summer jobs when they most certainly don't. Though Dave and Victor are hesitant to lie about something so big, they end up obliging to Curtis's persuasion. The big problem is though, that they need to raise a reasonable sum of $7,000.00 to convince their parents that they spent the summer frying chicken, saving drowning kids, and mowing the putting green. That plan then becomes known as Project Sweet Life. The rest of the story plays out in their schemes to try and get that money.