Down with the Underdogs: 2 (D'Arcy Kennedy)

Gentrification is moving in hard and fast in Montreals South-Western districts. DArcy Kennedy finds himself out of breath out of a job and raising a kid in a small home meant for another era. As the bulldozers take away entire chapters of his life he turns to old acquaintances for work leaning in on his hard-earned reputation as a good PI to find employment with the Irish mafia. But even organized crime is struggling to keep up with the changing landscape of the City. Weed is going legal trust funds are pushing realtors and people who would have not dared cross the Irish not so long ago now defy them carelessly. Navigating his past and staking his future on this new life DArcy Kennedy will have to thread a razor thin line between the law loyalty and his own family if he wants a place for him and his own at the end of it all. Praise for DOWN WITH THE UNDERDOGS: A working class family man strikes a deal with the devil in Ian Trumans fast-paced volatile Down with the Underdogs. The result is class warfare on the streets of Montreal. Truman offers an unflinching portrait of a city caught in the throes of gentrification and one persons struggle to fight back. An excellent read. --Sam Wiebe author of the Wakeland novels. Truman captures life on the edges--of culture of language of the legal and illegal of the sane and the mad. And he tells a great story in the process. --Warren Moore author of Broken Glass Waltzes