Recently released from prison, Jason Reece finds himself indebted to a drug gang and caught in a local turf war between his brother Vincent and Gregory Lord, head of a rival crime syndicate. Jason Reece just wants to get through a single day without losing his temper or being tempted to crawl inside a vodka bottle, of doing all those random acts of idiocy that lost him his future, his family, his life. He has one final chance at redemption, one last chance to avoid trouble. But for men like Jason Reece, trouble is impossible to avoid and there seems no way to stop himself becoming... A Man of Violence! Man of Violence is an exciting crime novel by Paul Ekert, author of Ordinary Monsters, Next Best Prophecy and Dating by the Book.