Donnybrook by Frank Bill
The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers drunk and high on whatevers on offer bet on the outcome.
Jarhead is a desperate man whod do just about anything to feed his children. Hes also the toughest fighter in southeastern Kentucky, and hes convinced that his ticket to a better life is one last fight with a cash prize so big itll solve all his problems. Meanwhile, theres Chainsaw Angus an undefeated master fighter who isnt too keen on getting his face punched anymore, so he and his sister, Liz, have started cooking meth. And they get in deep. So deep that Liz wants it all for herself, and she might just be ready to kill her brother for it.
As we travel through the backwoods on the way to the Donnybrook, we meet a cast of nasty, ruined characters driven to all sorts of evil, all in the name of getting their fix drugs, violence, sex, money, honour. Donnybrook is exactly the fearless, explosive, amphetamine-fuelled journey youd expect from Frank Bills first novel . . . and then some.