University Thugs: The Novel

For ex-offender Titus Stevenson a return to college shouldve been a breakthrough in the transition back to society. But he arrives at a campus hardly in the mood for healing--its on the verge of tearing itself apart.A string of racial scandals have battered the schools reputation. Every weekend bad blood between partygoers athletes and townies erupts into all-out brawls. A booming drug trade spurs aggressive police crackdowns. And just as tensions with law enforcement have reached their peak a serial rapist re-emerges after years of inactivity.Determined to graduate at years end and enter a top law school Titus wants nothing more than to put the past behind him. But the details of his violent conviction surface and his quiet life as a student crumbles. Now a powerful dean wants him gone. A feud with the football team has him cooped up in his apartment. Maybe an old love will work out this time around but something doesnt feel quite right.Hes got one year left to set things straight. When progress doesnt come fast enough old demons return threatening to derail his life forever--and it just might push the campus over the edge.University Thugs is a story of redemption and reinvention in an unforgiving world. On one level it poses broad questions about the transformative power of higher education. Yet University Thugs is undoubtedly a book with heart. It offers a frank deeply-felt portrait of young people throwing themselves headlong into dreams and their loyalties to one another when things dont go as planned. Told in a kinetic style across multiple perspectives the novel takes the reader on an emotional journey--through hope despair tenderness rage and all points in between.