BROTHERS AND BONES

“Thanks, Wiley.” Two simple words. Three syllables all told. And Charlie Beckham’s life will never be the same again.

It starts on a jam-packed subway platform, when Charlie finds himself next to a stoop-shouldered homeless man. Long hair and a thick beard cover half the man’s face; shadows cover the other half. As Charlie finally steps onto a crowded train, he squeezes past the homeless man and drops a quarter into his cup full of change. As the doors whoosh shut, the man says the two words that stop Charlie’s heart. The crush of people, the din of voices, the smell of perfume and newspaper and subway car—all these fade away for Charlie. By the time he changes trains and fights his way back to the same platform, the homeless man is gone. The man had called him Wiley. Only one person ever called Charlie by that nickname—Charlie’s older brother Jake, an investigative reporter. Who mysteriously disappeared thirteen years ago. So begins Charlie’s search for answers, and for his brother, a search that leads him down Boston’s darkest streets, into its blackest alleys, and, finally, into its criminal underworld. But if Charlie wants answers he’ll have to get them from some of the most feared and ruthless people in the city. BROTHERS AND BONES is a Top 25 Amazon bestseller that spent more than three months in the Amazon Top 100 in 2013 and reached the Top 5 in Suspense. James Hankins is one of the few indie writers to break out as an overall bestseller in any category other than romance. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. He used to practice law. Before that he wrote screenplays. Now he writes books and helps raise his boys.