Working-Class Loyalty and Betrayal
Hardscrabble Loyalty and Broken Bonds
These are stories where blood ties and codes of loyalty get tested against violence, war, or the law until something in them cracks. Brothers rob and fight alongside each other, soldiers depend on the man next to them in the foxhole, outlaws and veterans carry grievances that harden into either allegiance or betrayal. The recurring feeling is one of hard men bound to each other by necessity or family, knowing that survival often comes at the cost of the very loyalty that got them there.
