Weed - a crime thriller (California Sober book 2)

He survived the trailer park. He survived the streets. But now Jace is in the big leagues, and the price of failure is a shallow grave in the Humboldt hills.

Jace is twenty years old and sitting on a pile of cash earned through blood and paranoia. The game has changed. A hundred-thousand-dollar contract from a polished dispensary owner seems like a golden ticket, the one big score that will get him out for good. The deal is simple: deliver fifty pounds of premium weed in three months. But in the ruthless world of Northern California’s black market, simple deals are for suckers and dead men.

To meet an impossible deadline, Jace must move his operation from a backyard shed to the lawless, unforgiving mountains, where corporate growers patrol their stolen land with rifles and a quiet, professional menace. Forced to assemble a new crew of desperate, untrustworthy men, Jace quickly learns that the greatest threat isn't the competition—it's the vipers he’s invited into his own camp.

Betrayed from within and hunted by ruthless rivals, Jace is pushed to a new level of savagery. But as he fights to hold his fledgling empire together, he discovers the horrifying truth: the dispensary owner is just a frontman. The real players are silent partners hiding in plain sight—powerful political figures who view Jace not as a supplier, but as a disposable asset in their portfolio. They don't care about the weed. They care about plausible deniability. And Jace is the last loose end.

A worthy successor to the gritty realism of California Sober, Weed is a masterclass in tension and pace. Fans of Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane will be captivated by this raw, unfiltered descent into a world where the only line between predator and prey is a loaded gun and a willingness to pull the trigger first.

This is Book 2 of the unforgettable Jace Ryland series. There is no redemption here. There is only survival, and the cold calculus of what a man will become to stay alive.

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Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• Hardboiled Crime Thriller Series
• California & Rural Noir
• Organized Crime & Political Thrillers
• Fast-Paced Action and Suspense
• Anti-Hero Driven Narratives