Nick Quantrill gets into the bloodstream of Sam as he tries to make sense of his life, his friends, his estate, all of which are spiralling down into Hell and taking his future with them. But to straighten his future, he needs to look his past in the eye, including the death of his younger brother.

In this novella, Nick Quantrill does an excellent job of putting the reader in Sam's mind, sharing the young man's resentment and anger, while reflecting places I know from the other characters. A cracking piece of noir from a star that is only going to shine brighter. Read it. ( )