Nicki`s Life of Crime : BOX SET, COVER REVEAL - Boxer Boys by Nick Rippington

BOOK SYNOPSIS

1: Crossing The Whitewash

TALENTED teen Gary Marshall is banking on sporting prowess to rescue him from the mean London estates where violence is a constant threat.

Streetwise Arnie Dolan has a simpler solution: form the toughest gang and fight your way out of the poverty trap.

Their unlikely friendship spawns the Boxer Boys, a bond of close-knit brothers-in-arms committed to defend each other against those wishing to invade their territory.

Yet for both boys, hidden dangers lurk closer to home and when a series of shocking events shatter both their dreams, it isn’t until eight years later that Arnie attempts to rekindle their seemingly unbreakable bond.

So where is Gary? And why is he so determined to let the past stay in the past?

2: Spark Out

Tough guy Big Mo has an overwhelming desire to emerge from the shadow of his career criminal father and lift his family out of the poverty trap.

So when a warehouse raid turns up more than he bargains for, Mo finds himself in possession of the tools he needs to transform himself from petty criminal to big-time armed robber.

Planning the ultimate raid, Mo’s fortunes seem to be on the rise until Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher orders British troops – including his younger brother Clive – to war in the Falklands.

As Mo fights the police and his own vicious temper, Clive faces a battle for survival in the desolate south Atlantic.

Eventually their two worlds will collide, threatening Mo and all he holds dear.

3: Dying Seconds

ARNIE DOLAN has been ousted by his gang and lost the use of his legs – but he’s determined to drag himself back to the top of the criminal underworld.

A hundred miles away, life has never been better for his former best mate Gary Marshall.

Having changed his name to Gareth Prince in an effort to escape his past, the sports reporter has landed a promotion on his newspaper, scooped a major award and moved in with girlfriend Anjie and son Max. A life free from Arnie is just what the doctor ordered.
That is until tragedy strikes to rock both their worlds.

Forming an uneasy truce in an effort to learn the truth behind a brutal murder, Arnie and Gary encounter hostility both home and abroad as the Brexit debate rages and football hooligans rampage through Marseille.

And as the layers of the onion peel away, they are left questioning everything they thought they knew about their past lives...

4: Bare Lies

Flashback to the Millennium and In book No. 4 of the Boxer Boys series, enforcer Chuck Dolan and his brother Sly are out to prove there’s a new gang in town.

But when a raid on a drug rival’s nightclub goes tragically wrong, the two Boxer Boys flee to their granddad Billy's villa on Spain's Costa Blanca.

Their first impression of Billy is of an old man seeing out his days in the sun, but it’s quickly shattered when he introduces them to his 'business partners' - a murderous Colombian cartel boss and a sadistic former Irish paramilitary.

And though things look up for Chuck when ex-girlfriend Abby re-enters his life, Billy’s own relationships quickly turn sour and the prospect of a gang war on the Costas looms large.

As the brothers prepare for trouble, little do they realise there’s an even bigger danger hiding in Billy’s past: one which threatens their future, their loved ones and their very lives.

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