Fight or Flee, Patrick Jones
Fight or Flee, Patrick Jones
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Fight or Flee

Author: Patrick Jones

Series: Unbarred

Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media

Unabridged: 1 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lerner

Published: 01/01/2018


Synopsis

Do the crime, do the time behind bars. But once you've been in, it can be tough to stay out.

When Hinton Helsinger leaves the Youth Correctional Center, he's set on reforming his impulsive ways. But things at home have changed: his dad has been killed, his mom's remarried his uncle, and his uncle is the new kingpin of the family gang that controls the town's drug trade. Threatened by Hinton's return, Hinton's uncle hatches a sinister plot using Hinton's girlfriend, Olivia, as a pawn.

As Hinton struggles between the impulse to avenge his dad's death and the desire to seek a way out of that corrupt life, he embarks on a downward spiral of revenge and madness from which he and those he loves are unlikely to escape. This modern twist on Shakespeare's Hamlet explores the themes of reform, revenge, and self-destruction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Veronica on January 11, 2018

Read for work. Not Jones’s best work, I’m sorry to say. The plot works fine as an adaptation of Hamlet but some of the language decisions were puzzling; it was like he couldn’t bring himself to fully commit to modern dialogue.......more

Goodreads review by Kim on January 15, 2016

Hinton (Hamlet) returns from prison to find his world altered. His drug lord father, murdered: his uncle, now the main man and married to Hinton's mom. A move-by-move version of the classic play.......more

Goodreads review by Alice on November 17, 2024

TRIGGER WARNING: morte per avvelenamento, combattimento all'ultimo sangue, suicidio. Non ho mai studiato l'Amleto, neanche letto se è per questo - se mi sono imbattuta in retelling di Shakespeare, negli ultimi anni è stato soprattutto di Macbeth e quanto è stato memorabile Foul Is Fair di Hannah......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on March 04, 2017

When Hinton comes home again after being locked up he wants only to go the straight and narrow.While he was gone his father died(was murdered?)and his mother married his Uncle Clay who took over the family business.So Hinton has a lot on his mind.Everywhere he turns Clay is trying to make life hard......more

Goodreads review by Tori on November 27, 2015

This is a great book for those high school students that are having trouble reading. The story is plot driven and has fast action. A real winner for those hi/lo readers.......more