A Literary Crime Thriller
A BUNCH
OF FIVES
Danny Bradigan survives the war
and a storied career as a professional fighter, only to be gunned down and left for dead.In the silence of a coma, as machines breathe for him and the world moves on,
a mysterious old man bargains for his life.Danny’s recovery and search for answers lead him to a small Appalachian town
fighting desperately to keep its sins buried.As his violent past stalks ever closer,
Danny finds himself mentoring a young boxer
and falling in love with the boy’s sister.
All three are caught between
the town’s festering wounds
and the institutions determined to exploit
its dark secrets at any cost.Moving between the grit and realism
of a devastating wartime rescue,
the brutal intimacy of a championship boxing match,
and a remote Appalachian town
built on buried sins,
A BUNCH OF FIVES
is a bruising rural-noir thriller that explores
the simmering violence that men carry,
the fragile nature of faith,
and the blood-soaked cost of redemption.