The Dark Side of Joy (OUTLAW)

By Ken Barrett

A story of survival... Twelve-year-old Alan Smith had everything going for him; he was athletic, popular, and excelled scholastically. The only problem was that his parents were criminals. The lies he was forced to tell to protect his parents isolated him; his entire life was based on deception. On April 23, 1967, the lies ended. That night, the police kicked in the door to his home and took his parents away. With that, every relationship in his life fell apart. His extended family abandoned him out of shame, and friendships based on dishonesty crumbled and collapsed. Alan soon found himself homeless and alone. What follows is an odyssey of the human spirit. Alan will learn to survive juvenile hall, foster care, and finally life with other lost children selling drugs on the streets of Whiskey Gulch for an outlaw biker gang. As he learns to cope with mindless violence, brutality, and murder, he adapts, evolves, and becomes someone new. Amid these struggles, Alan finds hope when he meets Swan, his first true love. But it is through this romance that Alan learns the greatest and most difficult lesson of all, that there is a Dark Side of Joy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520645155
• ISBN13: 9781520645155
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"