Safe, Ryan Gattis
Safe, Ryan Gattis
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Safe
A Novel

Author: Ryan Gattis

Narrator: Christian Barillas

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2017


Synopsis

Ryan Gattis' gritty, fast-paced thriller, Safe, hurtles listeners toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to protect the ones you love?

Ricky ‘Ghost’ Mendoza, Jr. is trying to be good. In recovery and working as a freelance safecracker for the DEA, the FBI, and any other government agency willing to pay him, Ghost is determined to live clean for the rest of his days. And maybe he could, if the most important person in his life hadn’t gotten into serious financial trouble. To fix it, all Ghost has to do is crack a safe and steal drug money from under the noses of the gangs and the Feds without getting caught. Or killed.

Rudy ‘Glasses’ Reyes runs drugs and cleans up messes for the baddest of bad men. When Ghost hits one of his safes, Glasses must hunt him down or be held accountable. But Glasses is worried about more than just money. The heist puts everything in his life at risk—his livelihood, his freedom, even his family.

About Ryan Gattis

Ryan Gattis is the author of Kung Fu High School, All Involved, and Safe. His books have received the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France, and the First Annual McIntyre’s Fine Books Mystery Prize. Gattis lives and writes in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the street art crew UGLARworks and a founding board member of 1888, a Southern California literary arts non-profit.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

“Ricky Mendoza, Junior, wasn’t my real name, just one I took as my legal back when it seemed smart to. Like, the real me died back when I changed it and what’s left of me just floats.” Everybody calls him Ghost. Sometimes a man has to move on from a name and start over. A new name is like shedding you......more

Goodreads review by Paul

I was tempted to give this five stars due to the amount of emotional intelligence demonstrated by the characters. But didn’t have quite enough tension or peril to make the full grade.......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Interesting read but, ultimately, I found this one unbelievable, a sentimental tale about Los Angeles gang and drug related criminal activity and the tragedy of an honorable thief. The plot is a stretch and the whole story seems overly romanticized considering the grim reality of the subject matter.......more