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The Break: A Novel: "A High-Stakes Thriller of Debt, Redemption, and the Clean Shot"
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Title: The Break: A Novel Author: Shaun Inscoe
He had one last shot at a clean life. He just had to hustle his way to it.
Art Vance is a ghost in the world of professional pool. Once a master of the draw shot and the geometry of the table, his reputation was destroyed by one youthful lapse-a fixed game. Now, thirty-eight and facing eviction, his world is reduced to the worn felt of a low-rent pool hall and the crushing weight of a $4,000 debt owed to the hall's owner, Silas.
Silas doesn't want the money; he wants leverage.
Art's only path to a legitimate, scalable future-for his dream, Vance Custom Cues & Repairs -is the highly televised Bar Box King Tournament. But when the venue unexpectedly moves to New Orleans, the cost of the trip and the critical Calcutta Buy-in transforms the challenge into a colossal financial mess.
Trapped, Art must shake Silas's hand and take the ultimate act of Bad Business: running a shipment of illegal, high-end counterfeit cues just to buy his way to the table.
Now, his Level Up Moment is poisoned. Art finds himself fighting not just the competition and the magnified English of the 7-foot table, but his own instinct to over-power the shot when the stress hits. His nine-year-old daughter can track his moral failure in the physics of his draw, and his son has uncovered the ugly truth of the illegal cargo.
To win clean, he must first defeat the man he despises: the hustler staring back from the reflection of the table.
The fight for integrity, family, and the perfect, clean shot.
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