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Shot of Whiskey
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
SHOT OF WHISKEY
by Derek Parsons
He was five years old the first time he dropped a grown man.
Not because he wanted to - because he had to.
Whiskey Lee Whitney III didn't set out to become a legend. He was just a quiet kid with a busted heart, a grieving mother, and a left hook that felt like fate. From back-yard brawls to underground fight nights, from the echo of an M1A1 tank to the roar of a sold-out arena, the world kept testing him - and he kept answering.
They called him World War III. But behind the noise and the headlines, behind the blood and the bright lights, was a boy who only wanted peace.
Shot of Whiskey isn't about boxing - it's about what it takes to stay standing when everything you love has already fallen. It's about mothers and sons, promises and payback, the ghosts that follow you home, and the family that keeps you fighting.
It's not the punches that define him.
It's what happens after the bell.
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