![]() He’s the champion of Florida’s underground mixed martial arts scene. ![]() Resident alpha dog Ryan McCarthy is no mere bully. ![]() ![]() When he tries to defend a quirky kid named Max who’s taking a beating under the bleachers, Jake stumbles into a violent subculture that makes his previous fighting experiences look like small potatoes. The proverbial fresh start, however, is anything but for Jake. So the family relocates to Orlando, Fla., to give Jake’s little brother, Charlie, access to a world-class tennis coach as he pursues dreams of Wimbledon. Jake’s mother hopes a venue change might accomplish what nothing else has. Nothing-not his mother’s pleading, repeated trips to the ER, school expulsions or “visits” to the police station-stems his anger. Rage born of his father’s drunk-driving death erupts from him like volcanic magma. But the rural Iowa high school football phenom has a problem: He can’t stop fighting.
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