Season of SmokePaperback, 2 March 2021

It looks like ex-con Jack Palace's troubles will never end when he is pressured by the mob to kill one of his best friends.

Jack Palace is trying to go legit with his own security company -- but his old life keeps trying to pull him back in. A mobster named Sammy DiAngelo wants revenge for a killing that happened in Jack's past. DiAngelo blames Jack's friend Grover for the murder and gives Jack an ultimatum: kill Grover or be killed himself. Meanwhile, Grover has plans of his own. He wants to rip off the mob, and he needs Jack's help to do it.

Jack is desperate to start a new life with Suzanne, a woman from his past ... but is he desperate enough to kill?