A Thug's Christmas
(2025)The Billion Dollar Blackmail
(A book in the Thug series)
A Story by Wahida Clark
This Thug Universe Christmas Special connects directly to the official INSIDE THE THUG UNIVERSE™ Access Pass and interactive AI experience.
Christmas was supposed to be quiet.
For Trae Macklin, it was supposed to be about family, legacy, and enjoying the clean life he fought to build. The streets were behind him. The money was legit. The empire was secure.
Then the leverage surfaced.
As the city lights up for the holidays, a calculated digital strike threatens to expose everything Trae has worked to protect—his business, his family, and the past he buried at great cost. This isn’t a random attack. It’s precision. Timing. Blackmail designed to collapse an empire from the inside out.
With law enforcement watching, rivals circling, and the clock ticking toward Christmas morning, Trae is forced to reunite a crew that knows how to move in silence. Every decision carries weight. Every mistake risks blood. And every choice asks the same question:
What do you burn to save the family?
As old ghosts return and loyalty is tested, Trae learns the most dangerous threat isn’t losing the money—it’s losing control. Because the street doesn’t care how clean you’ve gone. It only remembers who you were.
A Thug’s Christmas is a gritty urban crime thriller about power, loyalty, and the cost of trying to walk away from the hustle—set against the deceptive calm of the holiday season.
The street never forgets. It just waits.
Genre: Urban Fiction
Christmas was supposed to be quiet.
For Trae Macklin, it was supposed to be about family, legacy, and enjoying the clean life he fought to build. The streets were behind him. The money was legit. The empire was secure.
Then the leverage surfaced.
As the city lights up for the holidays, a calculated digital strike threatens to expose everything Trae has worked to protect—his business, his family, and the past he buried at great cost. This isn’t a random attack. It’s precision. Timing. Blackmail designed to collapse an empire from the inside out.
With law enforcement watching, rivals circling, and the clock ticking toward Christmas morning, Trae is forced to reunite a crew that knows how to move in silence. Every decision carries weight. Every mistake risks blood. And every choice asks the same question:
What do you burn to save the family?
As old ghosts return and loyalty is tested, Trae learns the most dangerous threat isn’t losing the money—it’s losing control. Because the street doesn’t care how clean you’ve gone. It only remembers who you were.
A Thug’s Christmas is a gritty urban crime thriller about power, loyalty, and the cost of trying to walk away from the hustle—set against the deceptive calm of the holiday season.
The street never forgets. It just waits.
Genre: Urban Fiction
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