Kirjahaku

Zeke Sandaman is a twenty-something Boston bicycle messenger living as far off the radar as he can. With no bank account, no phone, no insurance, and no plans for change, Zeke is quietly paying the price for a short lifetime of bad choices. But everything grows even more uncertain in Zeke's already precarious world when he receives a threat from the remnants of his teenage days spent with the Burgess Street Mob. His incarcerated brother Josh is about to be released from prison, and members of the gang his brother had ruthlessly commanded as a young man want nothing more than revenge. After Josh reappears into society, Zeke learns the awful truth: the head of a prison gang has placed an impossible debt on Josh's shoulders--one Zeke has now inherited. As everyone turns against him and the clock on his life begins running out, Zeke becomes nothing less than desperate. In this gritty, suspenseful tale, two brothers are cuahgt in a frantic struggle between the past and the future and must come up with a way out before it's too late.

In 2008, 240,000,000 people called 911.They crashed their cars, suffered medical emergencies, or needed help escaping insufferable circumstances. This is the story of the 136 firefighters that answered the bell for the 80,000 residents of Sachem City. Formally known as the home of the Industrial Revolution, Sachem City now exists on the perpetual edge of financial collapse. Yet that cataclysm occurs anyway after the 2008 economic crash.As the fiscal crisis deepens, and with their contract expiring, dozens of firefighters are forced to retire. Those who remain must now decide-either work ninety-six-hour weeks with rolling-blackouts closing stations, or walk out the door with nothing.The Fire Service of Sachem City follows members of Fire Academy Class 61 as they break into this hyper-insular world. Founded by volunteers in 1801, two centuries later the new recruits quickly find out that while traditions may be handed down, respect is only earned.