Publisher's Synopsis
Is murder still wrong when everyone's guilty?
A Reasonable Amount of Violence is a visceral, razor-edged crime thriller set in the drug-fueled shadows of 1980s Boulder, Colorado. Beneath the surface of a college town buzzes a violent subculture of hustlers, coke deals, and schemes gone sideways.
At its center is Bruce Keown-charming, narcissistic, and spiraling. Alongside his friends and sometime partners Sean Akana and the dangerously unpredictable Kurt Black, Bruce is chasing fast money and a fantasy life just out of reach.
But when a high-stakes drug deal promises everything he's ever wanted, Bruce finds himself caught between ambition, paranoia, and betrayal.
Over the course of one hallucinatory, adrenaline-laced day, past sins resurface, loyalties fracture, and a brutal reckoning takes shape. What begins as a scam soon becomes a war for survival, and not everyone will make it out alive.
Sharp-tongued, darkly funny, and unflinchingly violent, this novel is a psychological deep dive into the corruptible soul-and the high price of chasing the American dream with blood on your hands. For fans of noir fiction, antihero thrillers, and stories that refuse to look away.
If everyone's guilty, who will walk away?
