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Slow Motion Riot

Name: Slow Motion Riot
Rating: 3.82 (314 reviews)
Author: Peter Blauner

Peter Blauner

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On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum is desperately struggling to hold on to the last remaining shreds of his idealism – until Darryl King invades his world. A deranged young sociopath, one of the most bloodthirsty creations of a diseased society, Darryl has come to drag Baum along with him into an inescapable morass of terror and corruption. And as their ravaged city explodes, they will stand face-to-face – mortal enemies trapped together in the heart of a devastating inferno that threatens to consume them both.

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