Minneapolis, Minnesota. When the Atomic Kid dies during a championship match on local TV, pro wrestling becomes a national sensation. Now, the country wants to know—was it real? Sully Alexander, ex-juvenile delinquent and fabricator of ‘true’ stories for wrestling magazines, is dispatched for his first taste of legit journalism: investigate the death of the Atomic Kid.
His unique qualifications? He survived Red Wing juvenile detention facility with the Atomic Kid back in the day, and his estranged mother is Black Widow Moscow, the once-famous woman’s wrestling champion turned graveyard-shift mall detective. They are reunited in the Twin Cities where Sully’s grit and the Black Widow’s contacts open the vault to the secret domain of wrestlers. Amid a world of lies, fantasies, and illusions, Sully discovers that in the ‘fake’ world of wrestling he may end up dead for real.
Genre: Thriller
His unique qualifications? He survived Red Wing juvenile detention facility with the Atomic Kid back in the day, and his estranged mother is Black Widow Moscow, the once-famous woman’s wrestling champion turned graveyard-shift mall detective. They are reunited in the Twin Cities where Sully’s grit and the Black Widow’s contacts open the vault to the secret domain of wrestlers. Amid a world of lies, fantasies, and illusions, Sully discovers that in the ‘fake’ world of wrestling he may end up dead for real.
Genre: Thriller