three days in hell
By EMILIO IASIELLO
Helman is a town where God no longer listens.
Disgraced and desperate after an affair with his boss's wife, Bobby Santos is exiled to Helman to hock Bibles for a crooked ministry that trades in faith the way others trade in contraband. The job is simple: unload the books or lose everything. But Helman is a dying desert town where sin is the only thriving industry, and salvation has no buyers. Helman belongs to JB and Amelia-beautiful, ruthless, and untouchable. Together they run every legal business and every criminal pipeline flowing through town, including a brutal cartel corridor trafficking drugs and underage girls north across the border. With nowhere else to go, Bobby embeds himself in Helman's corruption, guided by a small-time thief named Bins who teaches him how the town really survives.
Bobby soon finds himself in trouble.
Trapped by blackmail, watched by killers, and unable to flee, Bobby is offered one last gamble during Helman's infamous Chili Festival - a single night of excess that floods the town with outsiders and chaos. Bobby's chance of escape closes when both spouses come to him separately with the same unthinkable proposal. Murder the other. On a rooftop beneath a burning sky, with a gun and two bullets in his hands, Bobby must choose which devil survives, and whether his own soul is already beyond saving.
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Paperback: 304 pages
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Publisher: Beacon Publishing Group
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Language: English
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ISBN-13: 978-1961504271
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Category: Suspense | Thriller Fiction
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About Author
Emilio Iasiello is the author of the middle grade fiction book The Web Paige Chronicles, a short story collection Why People Do What They Do, and a nonfiction book, Chasing the Green. He has published poetry in several university and literary journals and written the screenplays for several independent feature films and short films.
A devotee of the theater, his stage plays have been produced in the United States and the United Kingdom. When not pursing his writing endeavors or working a full-time job as a cyber security analyst, he spends his time testing his cooking out on his family and coaching girls’ soccer. He lives in Virginia with his amazing wife and two children. You can find out more about Emilio and his work at his website, https://emilioiasiello.com.
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