Unpleasant, violent men leading unpleasant, violent lives
are the essence of this tale, set in Nevada. HOOK AND
SHOOT details the life of a cage fighter, Woodshed Wallace,
in the second of this series.
Wallace has had some fraught episodes in Brazil and is
recovering from a mass of injuries including severe eyebrow
scarring. He's hoping for some down time but a friend,
Eddie, asks him to run security for him and warns that
there are business deals going on with his 'entertainment'
company, Warrior, and the Yakuza, the Japanese organized
crime gang. A wiser man would have backed off at once but
nobody would call Wallace very wise. Before long he is
helping to murder a ninja assassin in the back of a stretch
limo and to hide the body in a freezer in a storage
facility. Nobody mentions calling the police. Their
troubles, and the body count, have just begun.
Jeremy Brown gives us a world of casinos, marble stairs,
conference tables, gyms, statuary and tiled pools; a world
of hard, of pain, of machismo. He assures us that 'mixed
martial arts cage fighting' is licensed in Nevada; think
Mad Max rather than a dojo. If you like Harlan Coben's
books about Myron Bolitar but find them too friendly, witty
and intellectual for your taste, you will probably get on
well with Woodshed Wallace.
The scrappy martial arts fighter Aaron “Woodshed” Wallace
prepares for his first big break stemming from the
legitimate MMA promotion Warrior, Inc., in this second
installment of the Woodshed Wallace series. Having fought to
survive his entire life, Woodshed thinks such an opportunity
will forever change his life for the better, but before he
can put his shady past behind him, a band of Japanese
mobsters threaten Warrior, Inc., and its president, Banzai
Eddie Takanori. Seeking to collect on the debt Eddie owes,
the gang wants to take payment in blood. Calling on all of
his mixed martial arts skills in and out of the cage,
Woodshed attempts to help Eddie and his ex-SAS bodyguard,
Mr. Burch, stay alive and keep the company intact.
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