After the grotesque revenge murder of her adopted son by a kiddie-porn ring, Detective Lieutenant Kay Boyd has a mental breakdown that plunges her into a deep depression. Now the undisputed "Meth King" of Boston, arch-criminal Joseph Xavier Null tries to convince Boyd that to cure herself she should join with him in his strategy to start at the top of the top of the ring – the Hebe Group – and kill their way down. At first she refuses, but Null proposes that Boyd approach members of the Hebe Group and offer them the opportunity to surrender themselves – or deal with murderous psychopath Null, who will torture and kill them. Null finds himself drugged and delivered to Hebe Group hitmen by criminal contract killer Janis, who in the nick of time decides to side with Null. Later, she and Boyd wind up rescuing Null again, this time from the creepy psychopath known as the Expert. But Hebe Group has their own expert, the nefarious Legere. It's going to take Janis,...]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:10:55 +0200 https://fiction.library.land/gary-kadet/613940-violent_mind_candy.html https://fiction.library.land/gary-kadet/613940-violent_mind_candy.html

The heroes are Null, a man with neither feelings nor humanity, a near automaton of vengeance, and Boyd, a woman who has lost everything in her life that meant anything to her ruled by guilt and a sense of duty at war with her compassion. Criminal psychopath Dr. Benway, who saved Null's sanity with an illegal, experimental therapy, has invented a new designer street drug delivered by a stick of gum. His plan is to distribute the gum – known as "the Chaw" – to Boston and Cambridge clubs for free to create demand. But when the Ecstasy-like sensual pleasure wears off, the after-effect is a murderous, violent rage. Micmac Indian high-rise construction "edge walker" and mob enforcer Filmore Lakeworry – known as "Lumpy" for his short, thick stature – forces a partnership with Benway at gunpoint. Null and Boyd set out to stop them – but Null changes his mind as the Chaw restores to him some of his lost humanity and Boyd can't charge Benway because his...]]> Sat, 18 Jun 2022 23:56:36 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/gary-kadet/608843-condtion_zero.html https://fiction.library.land/gary-kadet/608843-condtion_zero.html

Detective Lieutenant Kay Boyd, head of Boston's Organized Crime Task Force, saw her husband and children butchered by Boston's rising crime crew "The Family." Gambler junkie Joseph X. Null, a former low-level bagman for "The Family," was tortured by their chief enforcer until he lost his mind.

Due to an experimental therapy to bring him back from a mutilated, catatonic state, Null recovered everything but his humanity, remaining in effect a chemically reconstructed psychopath. A one-man killing machine now, his single-minded mission is to whack out "The Family" down to its last man. A conflicted Boyd is out to stop him, even though the Boston Police Department unofficially couldn't care less about "who takes out the trash."

Believing he's owed a debt, and having once been her CI, Null wants to recruit Boyd to help him destroy "The Family."

When Boyd lost her family, she became a functional alcoholic, unable to deal with her guilt and grief. Like Null, she too...]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:50:18 +0200