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The book was inspired by the Stand Your Ground law, which assumes that deadly force (e.g., guns) for self-protection overrides any potential misuse of the law for personal grievances.
It also ignores that when under stress people may be disproportionately "trigger happy" as when a Floridian mother, one night in Dec. of 2015, shot dead an intruder who turned out to be her daughter.
Reviewed by Lorraine Cobcroft for Readers' Favorite
Old buddies, Lawton Gibbs and Roy LaHood, have much in common. Both have troubled relationships. Both have daughters ― in Roy's case a self-serving, manipulative, smart-mouthed teenager with a lead foot. Both, in the first chapters of the story, are released after long terms in prison. Lawton wants to stay out of trouble, but Roy is determined to get rich quickly and he has a radical plan to achieve his goal. Introduce a greedy and self-centred ex-wife and a rich and an eccentric old lady to the scene, along with a gun-happy strip club owner and his crew of pole-dancers. Several other troubled, troublesome and downright seedy characters complete a diverse cast that brings a fictional work to life, challenging the absurdity of the law and society's questionable codes of ethics and morality.
In the early chapters of Stand Your Ground, Raeder Lomax demonstrates the ability to work magic with words and to draw characters who are diverse, vivid and fascinating. The intricately-woven plot raced along through unexpected twists and turns that kept me hooked. Lomax's core premise, the unreasonable use of the quite reasonable "Stand your ground" law as a weapon for self-defence, results in a comedy about jewel heists and the making and losing of fortunes turning quite deadly. I found Stand Your Ground an entertaining read and Raeder Lomax's tongue-in-cheek approach to a very serious issue interesting and refreshing. Ultimately, I think the book will have strong appeal to a wide audience. For lovers of action-packed thrillers, "out-there" characters and clipped prose, this novel will almost certainly prove a winner.
