Agonist

<p><strong>Loanshark Frank Powers lives by two simple philosophies:</strong><br /><em>Stay loyal to your friends.<br />You sign you’re mine.</em></p><p>Go back on your word and Frank pays you a visit. <em>If </em>he likes you and <em>if </em>he believes you the brass syringe stays in his pocket.</p><p>Now Frank must become a savior instead of a shylock. Many lives now depend on his strength and old skills shaken free of mothballs.</p><p>Gangsters guns girls and greed. Agonist rides a rollercoaster through the dips and dives of romance rage and redemption.</p><p><strong>An excerpt from <em>Agonist</em>:</strong></p><p>Frank felt it happen.</p><p>The old coldness crept in like it used to back when he hurt people for a living. Numbed detachment flowed from his head down to his feet. He felt his face go flat his eyelids dropping halfway. He straightened back stiff and hands relaxed at his sides.</p><p>Showtime.</p>