Falling Onto Cotton

In this Gen X coming-of-age crime novel a restaurateurs life spins out of control when his dying uncle a Milwaukee crime lord gives him a choice of taking over the family or face certain death at the hands of a rival. This genre-defying novel is laced with humor heart and 1980s nostalgia.Riveting and hard to put down...mixes many facets but does so with a bartenders attention to the perfect drink of action surprise evolution and revised life connections. Its highly recommended reading for crime story fans who like their tales both literary and thought-provoking-D. Donovan Senior Reviewer Midwest Book ReviewHaunted by the murder of his fiancée Chance McQueen-once a musician on the cusp of success but now a restaurateur-knows alcohol and toxic relationships are choices slowly killing his soul. Trying to balance the scales between guilt and redemption Chance takes under his wing a fatherless teen and mentors him through the dramatic stutter steps of budding adulthood.Awkward sweet and soulful 19-year-old Winnie is suspended in the inertia of waiting for life to begin. Navigating first love parental loss and trying to find purpose Winnie knows he needs to grow up-while Chance is figuring out hes not quite grown up enough.But when Chances dying uncle taps him to run his crime family everyone Chance cares about will be put in harms way. Chance must use all of his street smarts and call upon Winnies naïve courage to navigate this criminal empire built on murder.Brilliantly evocative of life at the tail end of the 80s Falling onto Cotton blends the teenage angst of Pretty in Pink with the grit of The Departed. It is a razor-sharp richly atmospheric and deeply moving portrait of a boy becoming a man a man finding his code and the dark underbelly of organized crime that surrounds them both.