Shadow Dance

"West is a man looking to flee the past, barely old enough to drink, determined to rediscover himself after several tours in Afghanistan as a POW prison guard. After going AWOL, West looks to reunite with Solomon, his childhood best friend, who exists in the dark underworld of a Los Angeles gentleman's club. West soon finds himself caught in the web of the Iranian family running the castle-themed Club Paradise. Big Z Pourali is a former wrestler with a dark side, whose businesses his dancers, employees, and family in peril. West stays in LA to look after Solomon, but soon falls for the club owner's daughter Nikki. West must come to terms with the raw underside of a Los Angeles crime family and his own past, all the while hoping to maintain his sanity in the process. Written by former US Army interrogator Martin Ott (The Interrogator's Notebook), Shadow Dance is a novel that explores what it means to face one's past in order to claim one's future"--