Luxor Kismaayo, will stop at nothing to hunt down and kill not only the man responsible for Trayvon Martin's death, but also the Government Officials who conspired to cover it up.
Luxor Kismaayo, is a government trained assassin, a Navy SEAL who knows exactly what happened the night that Trayvon Martin was killed. He’s the secret eyewitness to the cold-blooded murder of an innocent, unarmed black teenager. A boy who displays a shocking resemblance to his own son.
Luxor sets out on a bloody mission to enact justice, something that the legal system won’t provide. He leaves a trail of bodies along his path of vengeance, as he uncovers evidence that will level the playing field between the rich and the poor. He has no religion, no conscious, and no sympathy. He follows a different code, plays by different rules, and only abides by one law…
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!
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Reviews:
-Dustin J. DiPaulo djd10@geneseo.edu
No Justice No Peace: Trayvon’s Revenge is a novel wrought with tension, high stakes, and conflict. The fictionalized storyline alone is compelling enough to grip a reader for hours. However, in light of the very real events and issues dealt with in Trey Branson’s debut novel, the story resonates off the page.
Our narrator, Luxor Kismaayo is a Navy SEAL who is increasingly questioning the notions of freedom, justice, and liberty in America—ideals which he has risked his life to protect. He returns from serving in the Middle East and winds up becoming witness to the slaying of Trayvon Maarten. The circumstances surrounding the murder echo the grit of reality: the boy is black, unarmed, and innocent. Furthermore, Trayvon’s death finds no justice in the courtroom. This leads Luxor to become an agent of renegade justice. He finds himself on a murderous rampage, spilling blood for blood, in what he perceives to be the path toward true justice in a corrupt world.
The story never slows its pace. Branson’s chapters are short but heavy-hitting, like quick jabs that won’t let up. It’s an impressive ability to see from a first-time novelist; to weave such a complex plot and deep characterization together in a concise and exciting fashion.
That being said, the book contains too many grammatical errors for comfort. Many of which seem to be the result of lazy editing, since the errors are inconsistent. Branson will use “they’re” correctly, for example, in one chapter, but then incorrectly in another. Call me a stickler, but such mistakes took me out of the story.
Overall, I think that what Branson has accomplished here is a success. He has given the rightfully angry a voice and a productive channel for this anger: literature, writing, reading.
Book Review
No Justice No Peace: Trayvon's Revenge by Trey Branson
Reviewed By Gary Picariello g_picariello@yahoo.com
If the urban community needs an author that can make reading relevant, writer Trey Branson may just well be that person. His use of realistic dialogue and flesh and blood characterization, coupled with the familiar sights and sounds of Buffalo, New York immediately pull the reader into a world that is as realistic as any of today's top headlines. But it's not just Branson's skill at turning a good phrase that earmark his work as one to watch. A 10 year stint in the New York State Department of Corrections gives Trey Branson's work a gritty realism that only be achieved by someone who has lived the drama found between the covers of this debut novel.
Pages that Breath
Trey Branson's latest, No Justice No Peace: Trayvon's Revenge is a riveting page-turner and the chips start flying as soon as protagonist and Navy Seal Luxor Kismaayo arrives home after a tour in Iraq. After discovering that his son was killed in a needless car accident by a drunk driver who just happened to be a police office; Kismaayo finds himself placed in a life or death sequence of events. Author Branson's pages breath with a life of their own. And if there is a sense of familiarity to any of the words or situations in NJNP it's only because the urban community lives this paradigm of color every day.
Good Cop Bad Cop
At its core, Trayvon's Revenge is a thrilling roller-coaster ride with action and dialogue so seamless it's easy to forget you're reading fiction. Make that almost. Branson manages to use the real-life Trayvon Maarten tragedy as a backdrop for a parable of vigilante justice.
Writes Branson, ““Karma is the x factor that everyone should be aware of, especially when you make a habit of destroying families and oppressing innocent people.”
Truer words were never spoken. Long after the trail of bodies is accounted for and justice is metted out, there are lessons to be learned within these pages. No Justice No Peace makes us stop and think about the blurred line that exists between good and bad.
Declan Ryan sendemailtodeclan@gmail.com
No Justice No Peace: Trayvon's Revenge, the first release of many novels from Buffalo's Trey Branson, is a book full of paradoxes. It is a hyper-violent rejection of a society that encourages violence. It is a thriller with a political agenda. It is unrefined and full of errors, yet is somehow incredibly readable.
Branson's protagonist is a Navy SEAL named Luxor Kismaayo, whose life becomes entangled with a political conspiracy to ensure the acquittal of a fictionalized George Zimmer. After Luxor loses loved ones to corrupt power structures, he embarks on alternating rampages and chases that carry him across much of the country.
This is where the reader must make a decision. The fantasy of an expert killer taking bloody revenge on corrupt politicians and businessmen is tempting: Good versus evil. Reality is messier. Kismaayo does some very bad things in pursuit of vengeance that remind us of this.
Some may see this book as exploitative of Martin's death, but this is not entirely fair. Artists must be able to ask such questions. The book is not about Trayvon Martin, but it might be about Christopher Dorner. He is never mentioned, but the Navy reservist's specter hangs over the narrative.
One thing that becomes very clear about Trayvon's Revenge is that there was no editor. The book is rough around the edges. Despite bits of prose that might drive an English teacher up a wall, the story moves along because of good timing and the solid dialogue. Branson wears his influences on his sleeve, bringing elements of Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and The Sopranos. The result is a quick and entertaining read.
So is this just a summer blockbuster of a novel, full of explosions and narrow escapes? Or is it a serious indictment of real-life circumstances that endanger the lives of real people in this country every day? It's best for the reader to decide. One thing is for sure-- despite his fast-and-loose use of the language, Branson has a strong narrative sense and, with some development, has the potential to do great things as a novelist.
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