First published 2017
Eleven-year-old Polly has never met her father Nate, but she carries his gunfighter eyes according to her mother. When Nate crosses the Aryan Brotherhood leader in prison, he walks out with a death mark on his head. The greenlight extends to everyone he loves, including Polly. Now father and daughter must disappear together into a world where killing comes before being killed. Nate teaches his brilliant but isolated daughter the brutal skills she needs to stay alive. Polly processes their violent new reality through conversations with her teddy bear, her last connection to childhood innocence. As they fight and steal their way through each dangerous day, the estranged pair discovers something that prison walls and years of separation couldn't destroy. Their struggle becomes more than mere survival when they finally forge the bond that should have existed all along.
Genres: fiction, adventure, crime, action
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unlikely-allies
Setting: Aryan Brotherhood
288 pages · Paperback · Simon & Schuster Ltd
Content warnings: violence