Solid Base

Mitch Morrison was once a wealthy and powerful banker, but got cuaght out for breaking the rules. Now he's building a life out of nothing. After ten years in federal prison, Mitch walks out with a single plastic garbage bag for luggage, an aging GMC RV, and a secret he never confessed to anyone: money hidden offshore that could either save him or finish what the prosecutors started. His wife long since left, son won't speak to him. The men who once called him a genius watched him go down and moved on without a second thought. With no plan beyond a full tank of gas and somewhere quiet to disappear, Mitch drifts into a fading small town, where a worn out boxing gym and a struggling laundromat become the closest thing he has to a home. Among people who owe him nothing and expect even less, he starts to remember what it feels like to be useful, to be trusted, to be seen as something other than a headline. But the stain of the sins are hard to wash away, the tempation of easy money is still nipping at his heals, and is this all too much for him to outrun: will he rebuild, or does the past always collect what it's owed? Solid Base is a gritty, character driven novel about shame, reinvention, and the long road back from ruin, for readers of Willy Vlautin and Peter Heller.