Brotherhood

By Andrew J Harris

Grady Mercer builds motorcycles in a dead furniture town in North Carolina, and he does not believe his brother died in a wreck.
The Highway Patrol report says Shane Mercer failed to negotiate a curve on NC 226A, struck the guardrail, went down an embankment, and burned. Grady has stood at that guardrail five times with a wire brush. There is no scar in the steel. Nothing has ever hit that rail.
The only men who know what happened on that mountain wear a gold eagle on their backs.
So Grady goes to them. Eight months as a hangaround, standing in the rain outside a bricked-up bottling plant on the Yadkin River, never once asked to come in out of it. Then ten months as a prospect - cleaning bathrooms, guarding a gate at four in the morning, answering his phone on the first ring for men who will not say his name. Earning the bottom rocker. Earning the compass.
Royal Chastain has run the Dead Reckoners for eleven yearsand he is the most reasonable man Grady has ever met. He carries dead brothers' caskets. He sits in hospital rooms in February. He also made a phone call to Alabama that put a shell casing in the laurel below the Diamondback - and he has spent six years quietly building a hundred and sixty of his friends into a fall guy.
When a twenty-four-year-old prospect named Levi Sowers is accused of talking to the federal government, questioned for six hours in the Uwharries, cleared, driven home, and found dead three days later, Grady stops waiting.
Marisol Reyes did compressions on her own brother's chest for eleven minutes on a bathroom floor. She knows exactly what is in the bags going down Highway 52 on Thursdays, and she is the only person alive willing to tell Grady the truth about what he is turning into.
There is a federal agent in Charlotte with a pole camera and four years of nothing. There is an old man dying of a cancer he told no one about. And there is a rule older than every man in the clubthe one nobody says out loud until it is far too late to matter.
Somebody in that building is going to hand a hundred and sixty men to a federal prosecutor.
BROTHERHOOD is a novel about what it costs to belong, and about the difference between loving a thing and loving the men inside it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG7G2Y3Z
• ISBN13: 9798194248896
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"