Troubled teen Jake has had a couple of brushes with the law
since witnessing his mother’s brutal murder and ends up living with his step-father,
attorney David Sloane, who is a high-profile lawyer branded as ‘the one who
never loses.’ In an attempt to help the boy stay out of trouble they go
camping, and are joined at the last moment by an old friend, detective Tom
Molia, and his younger teen son TJ.
The boys bunk together the first night in a motel in the
little town that will act as the spring-board for their wilderness adventure.
Jake robs a local convenience store after-hours and unwittingly drags young TJ
into his misadventure. By the time the two fathers awaken the next morning
their boys have been arrested, arraigned and sentenced by a backwoods judge
with a quick sense for judgment. Think Dan Ackroyd in the ’91 flick Nothing But Trouble but remove any sense
of humor. Both teens are sentenced to a locally run boot-camp style detention center,
Fresh Start.
When Sloane is unable to get an appeal or a new trial the
two fathers make plans to find a way to get their boys released, no matter what
it takes. When they start investigating the judge, Earl Boykin, and his ties to
the community a path of deceit and greed opens to them unexpectedly. The boys meantime
find themselves being used as forced slave-labor for the warden and being abused
by a couple of long-term psycho inmates that the guards let handle their dirty
work. It becomes clear that there is a force working with them, behind the
scenes, and so the plan to rescue the boys is hatched, however neither tandem
is fully prepared for the scenarios they find themselves in as the book rushes
to a close.
Dugoni will have you on the edge of your seat in an
unstoppable force of energy that makes sure you can’t put the book down once
you start.
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