In 1986 San Diego, His Father’s Ghost Is Calling—And It Wants Blood.
Riku Ramirez is everything his father wasn’t—a straight-A student, a disciplined karate instructor, a kid with a future. His old man? A career criminal, an outlaw biker, a ghost long before he actually died.
So when word comes that his father is dead, Riku barely reacts. But the inheritance his father leaves behind—a beat-up enduro motorcycle and a sukajan (souvenir jacket) hand-stitched by Riku’s mother—calls to him in a way he doesn’t understand.
Wearing the jacket and riding the bike, Riku feels something new: power. Identity. A connection to a past he’s never known. But when a case of mistaken identity drags him headfirst into his father’s world, that past becomes a death sentence.
His father’s old employers come knocking—cartel men, killers, criminals who don’t take no for an answer. They give him a choice:
Step into his father’s shoes, run drugs across the border''' or die.
Now, caught between the life he’s built and the one he never wanted, Riku must decide: fight back or fall in line. But in a city where loyalty is currency and betrayal means a bullet, there’s no such thing as a clean escape.
A hard-hitting neo-noir thriller drenched in 1980s neon, blood, and betrayal, Sukajan is perfect for fans of S. A. Cosby, Don Winslow, and crime stories where honor, legacy, and survival all come at a brutal cost.
The jacket fits. The bike is his. But the life? That might kill him.
Genre: Mystery
Riku Ramirez is everything his father wasn’t—a straight-A student, a disciplined karate instructor, a kid with a future. His old man? A career criminal, an outlaw biker, a ghost long before he actually died.
So when word comes that his father is dead, Riku barely reacts. But the inheritance his father leaves behind—a beat-up enduro motorcycle and a sukajan (souvenir jacket) hand-stitched by Riku’s mother—calls to him in a way he doesn’t understand.
Wearing the jacket and riding the bike, Riku feels something new: power. Identity. A connection to a past he’s never known. But when a case of mistaken identity drags him headfirst into his father’s world, that past becomes a death sentence.
His father’s old employers come knocking—cartel men, killers, criminals who don’t take no for an answer. They give him a choice:
Step into his father’s shoes, run drugs across the border''' or die.
Now, caught between the life he’s built and the one he never wanted, Riku must decide: fight back or fall in line. But in a city where loyalty is currency and betrayal means a bullet, there’s no such thing as a clean escape.
A hard-hitting neo-noir thriller drenched in 1980s neon, blood, and betrayal, Sukajan is perfect for fans of S. A. Cosby, Don Winslow, and crime stories where honor, legacy, and survival all come at a brutal cost.
The jacket fits. The bike is his. But the life? That might kill him.
Genre: Mystery
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