Safe

All this cash, it's trying to tell me, there's no way I get away with it. There's too much here.
The owners of the cash will come looking. They'll come looking hard.
2008. L.A. is a city in crisis: there are no jobs, no money and no houses. Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses) is a drug-runner turned double-agent who wants to go straight and Ricky Mendoza, Junior (a.k.a. Ghost), a master safe-cracker with terminal cancer who's got nothing left to lose.
When Ghost steals hundred of thousands of dollars from a safe owned by Glasses' boss, an L.A. drug-lord named Rooster, he risks sabotaging Glasses' deal with the DEA. As Rooster closes in on him, Glasses does whatever he can to keep his deal on track, putting his livelihood at risk, his freedom and his family.
From the acclaimed author of All Involved, Safe is a modern-day morality tale, a bold, twisting and heart-stopping thriller.
'The book has unstoppable momentum yet is as finely layered and detailed with the gritty truth of life and the streets as I've ever read' Michael Connelly, creator of the Harry Bosch series
'This is one of those rare thrillers whose characters will stay with you after the final gunshot has finished reverberating' Daily Telegraph
'A literary novel and a thriller with more twists than a DVD box-set . . . superb' Scotsman

Ryan Gattis is the author of Safe, Kung Fu High School, and All Involved, which won the American Library Association-s Alex Award and the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. He lives and writes in South Los Angeles, where he is a member of art collective UGLARworks, a founding board member of arts non-profit Heritage Future, and a PEN America Prison Writing Mentor.