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City of Forts
Paperback
Series: City of Forts, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Jason Beech
Published: Mar 14 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A gritty noir novel
Ricky dug a grave for his childhood along with the body he didn't want found. Like the corpse, the consequences won't stay buried long.
In a dying town, where abandoned factories haunt its residents with past glories, Ricky and his friends run wild through streets paved in low-level crime and hollowed adults they do anything to avoid.
They don't go looking for danger, but they find it anyway.
A dead body. Cold. Bloodied. Connected to people you don't cross.
Distrustful of cops and every grownup infiltrating the world they've carved for themselves, Ricky makes a choice they can't take back. They bury the body. They keep quiet about it. They tell themselves it's over.
They soon find it isn't.
A local gangster is searching for the dead man. Doors get kicked in, people disappear, and the noose tightens on the four teenagers.
As the pressure mounts, Ricky looks for help wherever he can find it, including from the enigmatic man and his son from across the river who know how things really work. But favors come with prices, and every answer leads to a deeper hole.
Ricky learns fast that there are no clean exits. No heroes. And no one coming to save him.
City of Forts is the first novel in a gritty trilogy about loyalty under fire, bad decisions, and what it costs to survive when the adult world finally comes knocking.
Perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane and James Lee Burke.
What Readers Are Saying
A stunning tale of crime, corruption, friendship, and betrayal.
- Amazon Review
Tense, atmospheric, and haunting.
- Paul D. Brazill, author of Man of the World
A haunting tale of death, love, and the American Dream on a U.S. town's mean streets.
- Keith Nixon, author of the bestselling Konstantin series
Helluva storyteller... He can take you to a dark place one page and then have you laughing out loud on another.
- Stephen J. Golds, author of Always the Dead
A brilliant read that balances the nostalgia of youth with the brutality of a very grown-up and dark town.
- Aidan Thorn, author of When the Music's Over
...a gritty coming-of-age tale from a master of description. Compelling reading.
- Brendan Gisby, author of The Bookie's Runner
Bad choices. Worse consequences.
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