Safe

Safe

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Synopsis

Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a gangster-turned-double-agent who wants out of the high-stakes high-risk life criminal life, and Ricky Mendoza, Junior (a.k.a. Ghost), a DEA safe-cracker with terminal cancer who’s got nothing to lose. When Ghost goes rogue and steals thousands of dollars from a safe that belongs to an LA crime lord who happens to be Glasses’ boss, he endangers a deal Glasses had with the DEA. As Ghost sets out to steal as much money as he can get his hands on – all with the plan to give it to those hit hardest by the crash – and the Mob gets ever closer to catching him, Glasses tries desperately to keep his plans on track.

Fast-paced and gritty, Safe by Ryan Gattis is both a moving and human morality tale and an utterly immersive and heart-stoppingly suspenseful thriller.

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A moody yarn that cannily merges punk-rock world weariness and real-world criminality.”
Kirkus Reviews
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A Quote
from Safe
Stories are worse than bullets sometimes, because bullets can pass through you or be taken out but stories can’t. Stories stick.”
Ricky Mendoza, a.k.a. Ghost
What People Are Saying
About Safe
This macho, faster-than-a-speeding-bullet novel benefits from the extensive research Gattis has done on the L.A. gang scene ... and that deep knowledge informs electrifying plot twists.”
Sarah Begley
Time Magazine
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About Safe
Who told Ryan Gattis he could be this good? ... Like a great cracksman, he hears the tumblers of language turning, and he's an expert at making them give.”
David Kipen
Los Angeles Magazine
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What begins as a study about the choices we make in life ends as a freight train of a thriller, racing toward a heartbreaking finish.”
Harlen Coben
Author of Home
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