This Boxset includes City of Forts, American Spartan, and Where It Hurts.A dead body is the start of it all.Ricky and Liz, two teenagers fooling around in a dilapidated housing development, fall through exhausted floorboards and come face to face with a corpse. They could call the cops. They know they should.But Town is a place where, to them, all the adults have fallen. Ricky trusts no one. Drug dealers, bums, do-gooders interfering ... his baby brother left alone at home as Ma works all the hours - he wants them nowhere near his overgrown ex-industrial playground. It's his escape.So they bury the body and hope the whole thing blows away with the breeze.It's the breeze blowing in that brings the change they dreaded. Dangerous men wanting to know about the body. A mysterious man from over the river, along with his sullen son, wishing to help.What they buried cannot remain hidden. A reckoning is coming that will snake through the years, bloodying Ricky's brother, his friends, and his coming adult life.The City of Forts trilogy is a bloody odyssey of brotherhood from Ricky's youth to his manhood and a must for fans of Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke, and Greg Iles.Buy the City of Forts Trilogy now.Praise for the author:"e;A stunning tale of crime, corruption, friendship, and betrayal."e;"e;Readers looking for a deep, multilayered thriller that neither pulls its punches nor shies away from the more emotional aspects of its protagonist will not be disappointed by City of Forts."e;"e;Helluva storyteller … He can take you to a dark place one page and then have you laughing out loud on another."e;"e;Jason Beech has an amazing way with words and characters. His evocative turn of phrase, and his ability to guide us through this story from Ricky's point of view is breathtaking in its simplicity and execution. You can sense the impending doom from the very first chapter, and this feeling never goes away even in the novel's quieter moments."e;"e;City of Forts is beautifully paced throughout."e;"e;City of Forts is a compelling coming-of-age story that crosses over into crime fiction, with teenage characters that are likeable and frustrating, just as they should be."e;"e;The story ends with a neck-snapping twist that is both surprising and darkly satisfying."e;"e;... his tales have wonderfully unexpected twists, a disturbing sense of wry humour and characters that jump right off the page."e;"e;Jason Beech has a pleasingly gritty writing style, chiseled, polished, a touch literary which I enjoy, instantly engaging and perfect for the hardboiled pulp and noir genres."e;"e;This is a gritty based story alive with character. Jason Beech is a master of description and it is compelling reading."e;"e;His writing is truly one of a kind and every story he writes has an epic feeling to it."e;"e;There are edges in every sentence. They keep the reader attentive and slightly off balance, alarmed maybe by what could jump out from the next page."e;
