A propulsive, gritty novel about a female marked for loss of life who must fight and steal to remain alive, learning from the most frightening guy she knows-her father

Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too older for the teddy keep she holds with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her dad, Nate, fresh away of jail and generating a stolen car. He takes her from leading of her college into a globe of robbery, violence, and the continuous threat of death. And he does it to save her life..READING MORE about She Trips Shotgun: A Novel

Nate made dangerous opponents in prison-a gang called Aryan Metal has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its users on the outside to finish him off. They’ve already murdered his ex-wife, Polly’s mother. And Polly can be their next target.

Nate and Polly’s lives soon become a series of thin misses, of evading the criminals and the police, of sleepless evenings in motels. Out on the lam, Polly can be forced to grow up early: with hardly any moment to mourn her mother, she must understand how to have a punch and pull off a drug-house heist. She discovers herself changing from a timid little girl into a accurate fighter. Nate, in turn, discovers what it’s like to like fiercely and unconditionally-a love he’s by no means quite sensed before. But can their powerful bond transcend the harmful life he’s carved out for them? Can they ever have the ability to live a genuine life, free of fear?

She Rides Shotgun is a gripping and emotionally wrenching novel that upends even our most long-held expectations about heroes, villains, and victims. Nate takes Polly to save lots of her life, but in the end it may very well become Polly who will save him.