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Fairmount Wolves
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ISBN13: 9798231832835
Publisher: George Rios
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: George Rios
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twenty-two-year-old Tez Washington has mastered construction, but honest work barely pays rent in Detroit. When East Side boss Reese offers half a million to flip houses as a money laundering front, Tez sees his only shot at real capital despite the warning: Keep it tight, 'cause you slip up, we gon' send you to them wolves on the West Side... and they don't play.
Tez accepts, convincing himself he can handle legitimate construction while staying blind to dirty money. His girlfriend Jada supports his ambition, while best friend Tone pushes toward the decision they've dreamed about - real money, real escape from Fairmount & Gratiot.
Three weeks in, Tone proposes taking money to Palm Springs where his cousin can double their investment through car flipping. What starts as risking fifty thousand becomes taking everything - the entire half million in cash on a California vacation that feels like their first lucky break.
In Palm Springs, surrounded by luxury, Jada keeps the celebration going with expensive drinks. But when she excuses herself from their hotel bar, she vanishes completely - taking the money and every trace she existed. Tez discovers the empty safe, panicked calls from Tone revealing the California connection never existed, and Reese's death sentence: forty-eight hours to make things right.
Back in Detroit, cousin Malik offers to help recover the money for fifty percent, revealing disturbing truths about Jada. She wasn't just greedy - she was a professional operative gathering East Side intelligence for months, cataloging marks, waiting for the perfect strike. But when Malik's plan goes wrong and he ends up shot dead, Tez realizes his cousin was playing multiple angles, working all sides.
With West Side wolves closing in and East Side demanding justice, Tez hunts through Detroit's underbelly following leads that reveal Malik's death wasn't random but a calculated move in a territorial war bigger than stolen money.
The final confrontation erupts in a warehouse where East meets West, Jada's true allegiances surface, and Tez discovers even his recruitment was part of a larger game. As gunfire erupts between crews building toward war, survival means accepting there are no good choices - only ones you can live with.
A gritty urban thriller where everyone is prey to someone.
Three weeks in, Tone proposes taking money to Palm Springs where his cousin can double their investment through car flipping. What starts as risking fifty thousand becomes taking everything - the entire half million in cash on a California vacation that feels like their first lucky break.
In Palm Springs, surrounded by luxury, Jada keeps the celebration going with expensive drinks. But when she excuses herself from their hotel bar, she vanishes completely - taking the money and every trace she existed. Tez discovers the empty safe, panicked calls from Tone revealing the California connection never existed, and Reese's death sentence: forty-eight hours to make things right.
Back in Detroit, cousin Malik offers to help recover the money for fifty percent, revealing disturbing truths about Jada. She wasn't just greedy - she was a professional operative gathering East Side intelligence for months, cataloging marks, waiting for the perfect strike. But when Malik's plan goes wrong and he ends up shot dead, Tez realizes his cousin was playing multiple angles, working all sides.
With West Side wolves closing in and East Side demanding justice, Tez hunts through Detroit's underbelly following leads that reveal Malik's death wasn't random but a calculated move in a territorial war bigger than stolen money.
The final confrontation erupts in a warehouse where East meets West, Jada's true allegiances surface, and Tez discovers even his recruitment was part of a larger game. As gunfire erupts between crews building toward war, survival means accepting there are no good choices - only ones you can live with.
A gritty urban thriller where everyone is prey to someone.
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