Smoke ‘Em
A Cadmus Gale Novel

SMOKE ’EM
A Cadmus Gale Novel

Cadmus Gale didn’t come back to Paris, Texas to be a hero.

He came for bad coffee, long silences, and the company of a cat that didn’t ask questions. A retired black-ops officer with too much blood behind him, Gale wants a quiet life—and nothing that reminds him who he used to be.

That ends when Smokey, his oldest friend, drags professional wrestling back into town and crashes headfirst into the Carlo crime family. What starts as a small-time wrestling promotion turns into a turf war fought with knives, guns, and men who don’t know when to stay down.

Caught between crooked promoters, wrestling-themed enforcers, and a woman who knows exactly how dangerous she is, Gale is forced back into the kind of violence he swore he was done with. In a town where every hit is supposed to be fake, the blood is very real—and somebody is going to pay for it.

Brutal, bloody, and darkly funny, Smoke ’Em is Texas noir with a pulp heartbeat—where justice wears cowboy boots, romance comes with a body count, and nobody gets out clean.

Read it hard. Feel it later.