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A feared cage fighter in Mixed Martial Arts, Daniel is closing in on greatness -- until an injury derails his career. Out of work in his country hometown, Daniel slips into the underworld, moonlighting as muscle for a childhood-friend-turned-mid-level-gangster. While his wife works nights and his twelve-year-old daughter gets into scraps of her own, Daniel tries to escape and build a nobler life for his family -- but he sinks deeper into a violent, unpredictable world, soon sparking a conflict that can only be settled in blood.Written with equal parts tenderness and horror, In the Cage weaves together a grittily masterful tale of violence, family, and resilience as Kevin Hardcastle penetrates what it means to survive in the rural underclass.



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Kevin Hardcastle

Kevin Hardcastle is a fiction writer from Simcoe County, Ontario. He studied writing at the University of Toronto and Cardiff University. He was a finalist for the 2012 Journey Prize, and his stories have been published widely in Canada and anthologized internationally. Hardcastle's debut short story collection, DEBRIS, won the Trillium Book Award and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction.

His debut novel, IN THE CAGE, will be published by Biblioasis this fall (Sept 12th, Canada/Oct 10th, US) .



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