REVENGE ’86: NO ONE GETS OUT cover featuring Danny Moreno, Calvin Fearless Mercer, Becca, Robby, a blue muscle car, and an ominous Crown figure in 1986 Tampa
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REVENGE ’86: NO ONE GETS OUT

They survived 1985. In 1986, the men behind Victor Kane come to finish the story.

GenreAdult 1980s crime · Action · Revenge thrillerSettingTampa, Florida · 1986LengthApprox. 80,000 wordsStructure48 chapters plus epilogueStatusAcquired by Nightgrave Publishing · No longer available

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Tampa, summer 1986. A late-night payphone summons Danny Moreno into the unfinished war left by Victor Kane. Raymond Voss, a name buried in Calvin ‘Fearless’ Mercer’s past, has spent decades turning boxers, police officers, businesses, and missing young people into a system called Crown. When a hunted boy arrives with a warning and a black ledger points back to Danny, Calvin, Becca, and Robby, the survivors of 1985 learn that Victor was only one piece of a much larger machine.

The trail runs from a shuttered arcade and Tall Pines to Miami boxing gyms, Bay St. Louis, school halls, and hidden Crown archives. White roses mark the watched, old family secrets fracture loyalties, and a new director uses kidnapped children and fight tapes to turn Danny Moreno into a symbol. To rescue them and break the inheritance of violence, Danny must decide whether courage means landing the final blow—or refusing to become the men he is fighting.

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AuthorBrandon Burnside
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PublisherNightgrave Publishing