The blurb is straight to the point, and so too is the book. When loyalty to his bike club and his brothers has been Damage’s life and route to wealth, what happens when business becomes serious and brother starts killing brother? It’s a biker novel published by a small press. The first of the books I’m going to discuss today is one of the overwhelmingly brilliant ilk. When I look back on my reading year these disquieting books almost always turn out to be my favourites. Other times I’m totally ambivalent about whether I even like the book or not and yet it’s lodged its hooks in my brain and I know it’s a book I’ll never forget, and sometimes the book has made me fall in love with it and I feel sadness that I’ll never get to read it for the first time ever again. Sometimes these books are so overwhelmingly brilliant that I’m left with a confused jumble of feelings and thoughts that I can’t fully articulate, but which nag away at me, pressing me to do the heavy work of comprehension. It’s a kind of edginess that comes of getting too involved in a book. Every so often I read a book that leaves me with a sense of disquiet.
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