Compounded Interest: A tale of revenge, love and greed

This crime thriller is set in Appalachia along the Ohio River, but starts in Atlanta with Major. He is in his early thirties from Nigeria. At the start he has lost three things: His girlfriend Lucy, his gun, and fifty thousand dollars loaned from a “club owner.” The money came with a huge vig. It wasn't his vig. The vig belonged to two guys addicted to cocaine and trying to start a restaurant. Their plan was to sell coke to get the restaurant going. As great as that idea is, their buddy Money got involved and he definitely has his eye on a different prize. Money fancies himself a guy moving up in the world. He went to prison at thirteen and got out a year ago. Eleven years gone. It gave him time to think and formulate the ultimate strategy. It’s a simple plan: get rich. He is not alone in his machinations, he has his protege, a fifteen year old white kid from the suburbs. Money calls him Jerry. Major's Ex is a women named Lucy. She runs back to a place called The Ridge. She wants a taste of home and to stay with her best friend from childhood, Christine. Christine has been a mom since she was fifteen. Her son is Sam. Sam is almost thirteen. He has been surrounded by violence his whole life: from his mother's boyfriends, from his mother and when woken by the screams of someone being burned alive five years ago, from The Ridge. For his mom staying sober was the same as staying free from prison, a promise made to a judge after she was caught selling pills with her eight year old kid in the car. She is a frazzled nerve with horrible decision making skills. Compounded Interest .is a tale of love, greed and revenge.