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<p><b>A murdered brother. A ruthless drug lord. A city where justice comes with a body count.</b> <p>MJ Shea's making ends meet as a small-time cocaine runner in rustbelt Youngstown, Ohio. It's not glamorous, but it's enough - until his crack-addicted brother turns up dead, his brains blown out in a back-alley execution. <p>The cops write it off as just another gangland hit. No witnesses. No investigation. And nobody wants to cross Waylay May - the city's feared drug kingpin. <p>But MJ isn't nobody. With his own life on the line, he dives into the city's underbelly-corrupt cops, desperate dealers, and lies that kill-to hunt down the truth. <p><b>What he finds will change everything... and put a target on his back that no one walks away from.</b> <p><i>If you like gritty noir crime thrillers, vigilante justice stories, and Rust Belt revenge tales, you'll burn through </i>Everyone Dies in Youngstown<i>-by James Dain, a Best Novel Winner at the Los Angeles Neo-Noir Festival.</i> <p><i>Fans of Michael Connelly, Don Winslow, and James Ellroy-meet your next obsession.</i></p>