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He came looking for silence. What he found was a fight worth staying for. After a brutal attack shatters his peace, martial artist Scott Mason drives west with nothing but an old Jeep, a broken heart, and the promise of the road. When his search for quiet lands him in a small town cracking under racism, greed, and fear, Scott’s inner discipline is tested harder than his fists ever were. A young boy named Casey sees him as a hero. A grieving widow sees him as a chance to heal. And a circle of hate sees him as a threat to everything they stand for. As violence brews, Scott must decide ...

Extreme physical effort, especially when coupled with risk and deprivation, has been known to produce strong effects in people. These range from "runner's high" or being "in the zone" to far more mystical experiences: visions, hallucinations, and superhuman performance. Bone Games is the story of Rob Schultheis' exploration of this strange terrain - the altered states of consciousness that can be an elusive product of extreme sports.

What makes a man belong to a place - blood, accent, memory, or the life he survives? Andy MacIver is born into absence. His father dies when he is only two years old, leaving behind a Scottish surname, a grieving mother, and a silence that will shape the rest of his life. Raised on an English estate by Mairi, a fiercely proud Scottish widow, Andy grows up caught between two countries that both claim and reject him. In England, he is the Scottish boy with the difficult name. In Scotland, he is the English-sounding outsider. Everywhere he goes, people try to define him before he can define ...