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Villainous Minds: "In a city built on fear, silence is power."
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When the city's old king of crime falls, Danny Doyle inherits the one thing he never wanted - control.
Raised between loyalty and violence, Danny learned early that silence keeps you alive. But when his childhood friend Chan turns ruthless and his mentor Gino Rossi dies trying to hold the line, Danny steps into the vacuum, the reluctant keeper of order in a place that mistakes fear for peace.
As Detective Harland watches from the sidelines and Danny's lost love Anna drifts further away, the city begins to rewrite its own rules. Every favour becomes a debt, every quiet night a warning. And when Chan resurfaces from the shadows, older, wounded, and vengeful, Danny must choose between keeping the peace and ending the cycle - even if it means becoming what he swore he'd never be.
Spanning years of loyalty, betrayal, and the inheritance of violence, Villainous Mind is a literary noir about the cost of control and the weight of quiet.
A story about what survives when the noise finally stops - and the man left standing has to live with the silence.Also from
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