Brought To You By The Color Drab

<p><strong>It takes a blind man to show Race the way</strong>...</p><p> <em> The moment Race heard the gunshots explode he knew it was Vince. Somehow he just knew.</em></p><p><em> Throwing the remote across the room he leaped over the back of the ratty couch and flew down the dimly-lit stairs out into the hot August night.</em></p><p> </p><p>In this riveting teen novel Race Paloma's world violently turns upside-down after his older brother Vince is murdered in a drive-by. Without Vince's strong leadership their once-powerful hood-ruling pack unravels at the speed of light. The Deuce Dragons threaten takeover in their Cincinnati Over-The-Rhine hood. </p><p> </p><p>As life closes in Race has nowhere to turn. Vince's tight homie and joint-leader of their pack Wynn is sent off to juvie; the Deuce Dragons pressure Race to be jumped in; his mother drowns her grief over Vince's death in extended drunken bouts; then Race is caught shoplifting and comes face-to-face with the slammer. Could his world get any worse?</p><p> </p><p>Vince used to say: My entire life every freaking part of it has been brought to you by the color drab. And I do mean the drabbiest.</p><p>Race's new employer a blind piano tuner named Stan says: ...The truth of the matter is each man colors his own world.</p><p>So many voices. Who's right? Which voice will Race listen to?</p>