For Every Action...
Lincoln Baker, born a ward of the state, has gone from orphan, to gang banger, to basketball superstar, to lifer at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in the space of eighteen years. During his prison term, he meets Panama X, a powerful and mysterious father figure who gives Lincoln a reason for living - he must assassinate Randy Lafitte, the sitting Governor of Louisiana.
There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction...
In order to force a pardon, Lincoln orchestrates the kidnapping of Karen Lafitte, Randy's only daughter. But Randy Lafitte is a man who built his fortune by resurrecting a family curse from slavery to kill his own father. A curse that may or may not have been responsible for his son Kristopher's death in the gang crossfire that sent Lincoln to prison for life. Randy will stop at nothing to save his daughter, even if it means admitting the curse is real. Even if it means committing greater atrocities.
Too bad for Anyone Stuck in the Middle.
Three days after Karen's kidnapping, an explosive cocktail of revenge, manipulation, serendipity, fate, truth, and redemption detonates throughout Louisiana. When the dust settles, the ending is as unexpected as it is illuminating. There are secrets sealed in our blood, you see. The best answers, as always, lie within.
One of the side effects of Randy Lafitte's success has been a steady building paranoia. I repeated the term cursed three times in this passage as a subliminal hint to things to come. This selection humanizes Randy but also casts some mystery because he has gone through tragedy but it is clear he knows more than he is letting on.
Book Excerpt
One Blood
the papers had it all wrong. Randy was
no survivor. He was cursed. Cursed to watch his loved ones die.
Cursed with tremendous success in his professional life and extreme
incompetence in his personal life. And though they’d called his
mother’s death a tragic accident, his father’s death a suicide, and
his son’s death a murder—Randy knew better.
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