A vicious skinhead gang has found a promising new recruit. Tom Rollins.

Three months after losing what was left of his family, Tom Rollins is a ghost drifting through the American South.

In South Carolina, he steps into a cage fight to save a stranger from a beating and finds the violence dulls his grief. It’s not what a therapist would suggest, but it’s healing of a kind.

His prowess in the cage draws the attention of the men running the fights — the South Carolina Skinheads — and then the FBI, who want Tom to infiltrate them. The gang is mixed up in something far darker, and their leader, a former Green Beret, answers to a mastermind no one has ever seen.

Tom agrees to go undercover in the gang. And finds himself up against a shadowy adversary who is smart, ruthless, and always seems to be one step ahead.

But Tom’s got some demons to exorcise and if the South Carolina Skinheads and their mysterious puppet master want a fight, he’s ready to bring them an ocean of pain.

Published
June 14, 2026
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Paul Heatley

It’s hard to shake the grit of a Paul Heatley novel once you’ve stepped into his world. Stark, unsentimental, and laced with the raw nerve of noir, his stories don’t just depict violence and desperation—they breathe them. Hailing from the northeast of England, Heatley writes like a man who knows what it means to stare down hard truths. His fiction doesn’t flinch, and neither do his characters. While he’s not a household name, Heatley has carved out a loyal following among crime fiction purists and noir aficionados—readers who crave the dark, the dirty, and the deeply human. His breakout work, The Motel Whore, set the tone early:…