The Fire & Blood Chronicles · Book One
Miami. The cartels. The 70s and 80s.
A city raised in sunshine, ruled by sin, built by blood.
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The novel
Cocaine money is flooding the streets, political corruption runs deep, and the neighborhoods are burning.
At the center of it are three Vietnam-veteran firefighters — men who came home carrying scars nobody can see. In the firehouse they are respected. On the streets they are witnesses to a city slipping into chaos. When a young rookie is taken under their wing, he is drawn into something far more dangerous than he imagined.
What begins as a run of suspicious fires becomes a web of cartel-driven arson, buried secrets, and powerful men hiding behind politics and money. As the truth closes in, the men realize the system cannot be trusted to deliver justice.
And when the law fails, they will.
The author
Mark Buckley served more than two decades with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue as a firefighter and paramedic. He drew on that career — the firehouses, the shifts, and the city he watched change through the cocaine years — to write Fire & Blood, a novel about the men who ran toward the fires nobody could explain.
He lives in South Florida.
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Paperback and ebook. Print ISBN 979-8-2958-2644-3.
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