A Reasonable Amount of Violence

<p><strong style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Is murder still wrong when everyone's guilty?</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>A Reasonable Amount of Violence</em><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)> is a visceral razor-edged crime thriller set in the drug-fueled shadows of 1980s Boulder Colorado. Beneath the surface of a college town buzzes a violent subculture of hustlers coke deals and schemes gone sideways.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>At its center is Bruce Keown-charming narcissistic and spiraling. Alongside his friends and sometime partners Sean Akana and the dangerously unpredictable Kurt Black Bruce is chasing fast money and a fantasy life just out of reach. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>But when a high-stakes drug deal promises everything he's ever wanted Bruce finds himself caught between ambition paranoia and betrayal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Over the course of one hallucinatory adrenaline-laced day past sins resurface loyalties fracture and a brutal reckoning takes shape. What begins as a scam soon becomes a war for survival and not everyone will make it out alive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Sharp-tongued darkly funny and unflinchingly violent this novel is a psychological deep dive into the corruptible soul-and the high price of chasing the American dream with blood on your hands. For fans of noir fiction antihero thrillers and stories that refuse to look away.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>If everyone's guilty who will walk away?</strong></p>