Download or read book For Blood and Loyalty written by Christopher Kasparoza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S 1999, Bobby Drakis is 26, and after 6 very long years inside state prison he's out on appeal and finally back home in Bayside, Queens, New York City-- where his best friend Victor Saravano has become a wealthy and dangerous drug dealing loan shark and enforcer for the mob. Hoping to avoid another 25-year sentence though, Bobby declines his offer for "a job" instead of getting paid like the rest of their childhood friends in Victor's crew are doing. But when an old flame brings him to his knees, and a chance encounter draws him into the life, shit hits the fan with force as true characters are revealed and dark secrets are brought to the surface as the people in their world fully realize that while blood might make you related... It's Loyalty that makes you Family. FOR BLOOD AND LOYALTY A Novel about Love, Honor, and Fatherless Sons By Christopher Kasparoza

Download or read book Blood Sacrifice written by David D. L. Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you give up in order to follow your dreams? In his thrilling debut author David Sullivan takes you along the journey of Corey, a man that has overcome the odds of his home life and realized his gift when it comes to music, but what will be the price of his pursuit of fame and fortune? Will everyone he knows and loves become collateral damage on his way to the top? Taking you into the studio and the streets and the homes of characters you won't be able to forget, BLOOD SACRIFICE is a reminder for all of us that our actions have consequences and sometimes the cost of what we say we want is more than we are really willing to pay.

Download or read book Blood N Blood Out written by Elbert T David Jr and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saleem, Trey, Bruce and Shymire are four teenagers that are fed up with living a penniless lifestyle. Together they decide their only way to escape poverty and get lots of money is to enter the lucrative drug trade in the city of Pittsburgh. In their quest to take over the entire city, the four knew they will have to set examples out of people to let the streets know they're not to be played with even if it meant starting a war with the most ruthless drug lord in the city. Will this be a mistake that could cost them their lives and also the lives of their family members as well?

Download or read book No Love No Loyalty written by Goon Squad and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONG STRETCHES IN THE SLAMMER CAN MAKE THE AMATEUR HUSTLER TAPOUT AND CALL IT QUITS. Not Fool, tho. He's a decorated vet from the original war on drugs. After his recent release, he touches back down in his old 'hood with a new plug and a game plan to lay a new pipeline, and he doesn't waste any time making his presence felt among the local heavies. At the moment, it just so happens that the heaviest local of them all is Fool's twin brother, RunThang. He's another combat veteran from way back when crack first hit the streets like a terrorist attack, and heroin was causing more casualties than a suicide bomber. Back in those days, the twins were the main perpetrators pumping up those statistics. It's never been a secret around the 'hood that Fool was the twin born with the brains, but RunThang popped out of the pussy holding most of the muscle. Eventually, jealousy and old grudges split that family bond, and to nobody's surprise, RunThang doesn't welcome his twin brother home with open arms. Just as gang jump-ins only work on pipsqueaks and peons, OG status only works in the movies. In the real gangland of the streets, loyalties line up behind the man who can bake the most bread and feed the block. But out-of-sight means out-of-mind, and while Fool has been M.I.A. for six long years, RunThang has a crew of young soldiers he's been keeping well fed. When it comes to the crumbs on their table, competition is never welcomed, always frowned upon, and they won't hesitate to greet the twin with hollow points and buckshots.

Download or read book Borrowed Loyalty written by Sahreth Bowden and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK TWO IN THE VISITOR'S BLOOD SERIES- After being forced into hiding to protect their partners, Sulru and John must decide what course of action will get them back in proper standing with the rest of Galdelier. However, knowing the totalitarian government would rather end their existence, seeing them as a blight to the perfect society they have created, the two must face the very probable fact that they will never be reunited with their family.Meanwhile, Malook and Connie are equally as desperate to save their friends. Hope becomes strained, even lost when they must face forgetting their lovers and moving onward with the rest of the warring world. When the line between friend and foe is tested, where do your loyalties lie?

Download or read book Blood Kin written by Ceridwen Dovey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer's regime. But when the President is deposed, the trio are revealed as less than innocent. A deeply chilling yet sensual novel, Blood Kin illustrates Lord Acton's famous quip, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," and marks the beginning of an illustrious literary career.

Download or read book Visitor s Blood written by Sahreth Baphy Bowden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Connie and Sergant John have always dreamed of extraterrestrial life, but after meeting all-too-human aliens, their superiors force tests, interrogation, torture, and imprisonment onto the ETs, forcing another alien passenger, who had been presumed dead, to slaughter many of the Earthlings at the base where her crew mates were being held. This alien is revealed to be a vampire-like creature and is soon able to free her fellow passengers and run for the safety of their ship. However, Connie and John follow them out and soon find themselves aboard the alien craft, with no option of returning home.

Download or read book Bred by the Slums written by Ghost and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snatched up by Child Protective Services at the tender age of nine years old, SHEMAR was destined for a life of struggle and dysfunction. But those that counted him out had no way of measuring the heart of a young savage who's been BRED BY THE SLUMS. As he ages, young, beastly Shemar is motivated by more than just the shine and money that comes from hustling and murder in the hood. He's determined to rescue his younger sister, PURITY, from them hell she fell in to when they were separated by the system. With a cold heart and rescuing his sister from the dregs of foster care on his mind, Shemar forces his way into the slums of Cloverlane in Houston, Texas, where it is filled with low-life goons that refuse to fold or bow down to his gangsta. What unfolds is perverse, epic and breathtaking, as author GHOST spins an insatiable story of loyalty, greed, love, incense and calculated murder.

Download or read book Blood Of My Brother 4 written by Zoe & Yusuf T woods and published by Master Expressions LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A letter from the grave will unveil something you never knew about the Blood of My Brother series...everything. Roc, reportedly the most notorious man in the city of Philadelphia according to law enforcement, is back! After instructing the demise of his once beloved mentor Mr. Holmes, Roc realizes that there is unfinished business, that which will bring him face to face with the man behind the mask. Sometimes walking a straight path is not as easy as it seems, especially when there are wolves hidden along the trail. Many chronicles of war are never told, for they are trapped within the minds of dead men who carried them; only if Roc could have been as lucky...

Download or read book A Time of Blood written by John Gwynne and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great read that accelerates the pace and goes one up on its excellent predecessor . . . Exciting, action-packed fantasy." -- Mark Lawrence Defy the darkness. Defend the light. Drem and his friends are haunted by the horrors they witnessed at the battle at Starstone Lake: the screams of men being warped into beasts and the sight of a demon rising from the dead. But worse than any memory is Fritha, the demons' deadly high priestess. And she is hunting them. Concealed in Forn Forest, Riv knows her very existence is a threat to the Ben-Elim. She represents their most dangerous secret, and if the warrior angels find her, they won't hesitate to silence her. As the demonic forces multiply, they send a mighty host to overthrow the angel's stronghold. Like heroes of old, Drem, Riv, and the Bright Star's warriors must battle to save themselves and save their land. But can the light triumph when the dark is rising? For more from John Gwynne, check out:Of Blood and BoneA Time of DreadA Time of BloodA Time of Courage The Faithful and the FallenMaliceValorRuinWrath

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Ernst Haffner and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty. Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.

Download or read book Daughter of Smoke Bone written by Laini Taylor and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

Download or read book The Blood Trials written by N. E. Davenport and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fantasy and science fiction, N. E. Davenport’s fast-paced, action-packed debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racist and misogynistic society to become an elite warrior. It’s all about blood. The blood spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor long ago. The blood gifts of Mareen’s deadliest enemies. The blood that runs through the elite War Houses of Mareen, the rulers of the Tribunal dedicated to keeping the republic alive. The blood of the former Legatus, Verne Amari, murdered. For his granddaughter, Ikenna, the only thing steady in her life was the man who had saved Mareen. The man who had trained her in secret, not just in martial skills, but in harnessing the blood gift that coursed through her. Who trained her to keep that a secret. But now there are too many secrets, and with her grandfather assassinated, Ikenna knows two things: that only someone on the Tribunal could have ordered his death, and that only a Praetorian Guard could have carried out that order. Bent on revenge as much as discovering the truth, Ikenna pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials—a brutal initiation that only a quarter of the aspirants survive. She subjects herself to the racism directed against her half-Khanaian heritage and the misogyny of a society that cherishes progeny over prodigy, all while hiding a power that—if found out—would subject her to execution…or worse. Ikenna is willing to risk it all because she needs to find out who murdered her grandfather…and then she needs to kill them. Mareen has been at peace for a long time… Ikenna joining the Praetorians is about to change all that. Magic and technology converge in the first part of this stunning debut duology, where loyalty to oneself—and one’s blood—is more important than anything.

Download or read book Blood of the Fold written by Terry Goodkind and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seeker of Truth takes his rightful place as the new ruler of D’Hara in the third novel of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s epic fantasy series. After escaping from the Palace of Prophets, Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard. But when he brings down the barrier between the Old and New Worlds, the Imperial Order suddenly poses a threat to the the freedom of all humankind. As the Imperial Order sends delegations and armies into the New World, Richard’s only chance to stop the invasion is to claim his heritage as the new Lord Rahl and ruler of D’Hara. But convincing the D’Harans of his legitimacy won’t be easy. Meanwhile, a powerful enemy is on the trail of Richard’s love, Kahlan Amnell. And when the spell Richard cast to protect her is broken, he must martial his newfound authority—and the armies that come with it—to save her life.

Download or read book Blood Ninja written by Nick Lake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy from a small fishing village must face a new reality after his father is murdered and he is rescued by a mysterious ninja in this heart-stopping first novel in the Blood Ninja trilogy. Could Taro, a fisherman’s son, be destined for greatness? In the course of a day, Taro’s entire life changes: His father is murdered before his eyes, and Taro is taken by a mysterious ninja on a perilous journey toward safety. Someone wants Taro dead, but who—and why? With his best friend, Hiro, and their ninja guide, Shusaku, Taro gets caught in the crossfire of a bitter conflict between rival lords for control of imperial Japan. As Taro trains to become a ninja himself, he’s less and less sure that he wants to be one. But when his real identity is revealed, it becomes impossible for Taro to turn his back on his fate.

Download or read book Magic in the Blood written by Mayte Losada and published by Mayte Losada. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a magical realm, the enemy kingdoms of blood mages and soul mages, Meris and Lysmir, are unexpectedly on the brink of war after two mysterious royal murders. The two royal families quickly cast blame on each other, but not everything is as it seems. Princess Sivrehya of Meris and Prince Ivar of Lysmir separately vow to determine the truth. Unbeknownst to each other, the mortal enemies journey to the Twin Cities of the solar and lunar mages to search for a mythical and deadly monster that cannot lie and knows all. During their quest, Sivrehya and Ivar strive to uncover what really happened to their families while fighting the urge to kill each other along the way.

Download or read book Pride and Loyalty written by Kenneth Del Vecchio and published by . This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: