Second Lies the Son
by Matt Phillips
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Pub Date Nov 15 2025 | Archive Date Oct 18 2025
Run Amok Books | Run Amok Crime
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Description
Set in the high deserts of California, Second Lies the Son is a tale of small-town friendship, love, disloyalty, and violence. Sam and Hayes grow up together—brothers in spirit. But their lives take different turns. Sam fumbles his way to family and work. Hayes bloodies his hands in Afghanistan. Returned a reluctant war hero, Hayes is dead set on avenging his conversion into an instrument of war. Sam tries to head off his best friend’s brutal plans, but the haunting sins of his own past come calling. From one of America’s authentic noirists, Second Lies the Son depicts the irredeemable violence of American masculinity and tracks that violence to the darkest depths of cold-blooded murder.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798990485143 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 181 |
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Featured Reviews
Kathryn M, Reviewer
This was everything that I was expecting from a murder fiction book, it had that feel that I was looking for and enjoyed the overall tension that worked in the storyline. The characters were everything that I was looking for and enjoyed getting into their world during this. Matt Phillips has a strong writing style and was able to weave the genre perfectly together.
Andrew E, Reviewer
I love Phillips’ crime novels but here he tries for a more straight literary fiction and it falls flat.. In fact I got about 20% through and gave up. It just seemed pretentious and nothing was really happening. Phillips should stick to well written crime stories.
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