After the Lights Go Out

THE NEW STANDALONE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THREE-FIFTHS, A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR____________‘[A] stunning, stone-cold knockout... Brutally elegant prose, jet fuel-like propulsiveness’ P. J. Vernon, author of Bath Haus‘John Vercher’s latest is a spellbinding tour de force... I loved every moment of it, even the ones that broke my heart’ Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy‘Here is a novelist at the height of his power’ Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home____________Xavier ‘Scarecrow’ Wallace is a biracial Black MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, who is facing the comeback fight of his life.He is also losing his battle with pugilistic dementia – a struggle he can longer deny.As he trains, he visits the nursing home of his father, a white man who is suffering from end-stage Alzheimer’s. Here, he witnesses episodes that reveal shocking truths about his past and family.When a sparring session with a young fighter goes horribly wrong, Xavier is faced with a dangerous dilemma: he must throw his upcoming fight or suffer the deadly consequences.