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Youth, love and violence collide in the enthralling, hard-hitting first novel by Ryan Gattis, author of All Involved.

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Jen B´s been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids the Principal. She doesn´t complain. She´s loyal to her MLK ´family´. And, like 99.5% of the student body, she knows one form or another of martial arts.

When Jen´s world-famous Kung-Fu champion of a cousin Jimmy Chang turns up, everyone wants a piece of him - including Ridley, resident drug lord and leader of the school´s most violent gang. They all want to see the legendary martial-arts master defend himself during the school´s merciless initiation ritual.

Except that Jimmy´s made a promise never to fight again - a promise that soon leads to the murder of Jen´s brother and a bloody final battle that engulfs the entire school.

Fast-paced, gritty and addictive, Kung Fu by Ryan Gattis is an extreme journey into high-school violence and the American Dream that feeds it.

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It´s so tense that at times you have absolutely no idea what has just happened in the real world because you´re in The Fu, entirely. You feel every blow, every break. And what a climax . . . I want to tell you all about it so that I can discuss with you how wonderful, tragic and ultimately cathartic it was . . . but I won´t. You´ll just have to keep a strong stomach and see for yourself Independent on Sunday

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Gattis, Ryan
Ryan Gattis is the author of Kung Fu and All Involved, which won the American Library Association´s Alex Award & the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. Gattis lives and writes in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the street art crew UGLARworks & a founding board member of 1888, a Southern California literary arts non-profit.

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