Escaping Fate (Paradox, #1)

Pete Bedauern began his life as a latchkey kid in a run-down trailer park with a single mom, living on stale hot dog buns and bleak prospects. Those were the cards Fate had dealt him, and Pete was on his way to becoming an angry young man. Then Pete's estranged uncle burst on the scene to punch Fate in the mouth.

Uncle Si is scarred inside and out; he's a hard drinker; painfully blunt; a little mysterious and maybe even scary, but takes an interest in his nephew that Pete's father never to...