After an ambush by one of their own, an expert heist team takes cover in a city that feeds on their deepest inhibitions and most hedonistic impulses. 

SYNOPSIS:

After an ambush by one of their own, an expert heist team takes cover in a city that feeds on their deepest inhibitions and most hedonistic impulses. Out of Dodge is a sprawling crime saga dealing with themes of nature versus nurture, redemption and transformation, the consequences of urban decay, and the moral ambiguity of justice.

Welcome to Dodge. A living, breathing anachronism of a metropolis that swallows up all who enter its limits and alters them permanently. Gambling, drugs, prostitution…vices pump through Dodge like a junkie’s veins. The cars are outdated, ripe for hotwiring. The street corners littered with payphones, the cell reception near nonexistent. Need a decent wifi connection? You’ll have to pop into one of Dodge’s many Mob-controlled casinos to check your email.

Jerome and Marcus grew up together in foster care where damaged childhoods forged them into highly flawed, yet productive machines. From a young age they learned that if they didn’t take what they needed in life, they’d never be anything other than empty handed. As adults they formed a crew of thieves with Wilcox, a competent wheelman, and Lenny, a wild card with a meanstreak. Through trial, error and repetition, this foursome perfected their craft and turned thievery into an artform. But when they stumbled upon information that set up a job big enough to walk away from a life of crime forever, cracks in the cadre’s facade would prove fateful.

By the time the final job is executed, Lenny has ambushed the team, Wilcox is dead, Marcus and Jerome have duffles of cash in their car and the city of Dodge in their sights. But will this mysterious concrete jungle provide the safe haven they're looking for, or are they about to enter a modern day Gomorrah?

Once inside the city’s limits, a trove of unique characters come into play. There’s the cops of course, who steal the money from the last job and leave Marcus and Jerome broken and empty handed. There’s the mobsters, who set their sights on–and sink their teeth into–these formidable young thieves early on. There's the dogged private investigator, minding everybody’s business but his own. There’s the bombmaker. The butcher. The biker gang.

As Jerome and Marcus rise through the ranks of Dodge City’s criminal underworld, the ultimate prize comes back on their radar–the loot from the final job. But with a motley collection of cops, criminals and everything in between all vying for these illicit spoils, will Marcus and Jerome be able to reclaim the cash and make it out of dodge?

Edge-of-your-seat thrills, acerbic dialogue, and darkly comic observations on the human condition make Out of Dodge read like Elmore Leonard characters up and walked into a George Pelecanos’ story. Think Don Winslow's City on Fire meets Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen.

The story ends with a paradigm-shifting heist that mirrors what should have been the last job, the botched robbery that led our protagonists to Dodge in the first place. Only this one’s more explosive–it rocks the city to its core and leaves our damaged thieves reeling and broken beyond redemption.