The Hard Choices

Moonstomper, Book 2

By: Phil Hardt

Narrated by: Daryl Mayfield

In The Hard Choices we reconnect with Chicago Rudeboy Steve Andersen, utterly exhausted from working three jobs while sacrificing his schooling and future to protect his sister Luna and brother Matt from the hands of their estranged father, Mike.
Meanwhile, things seem to be looking up for Sammy as his relationship with fellow Metalhead, Tiffany, begins to bloom and a shaky friendship with Luna develops.
Set within the fast, loud and sometimes violent world that was Chicago’s Hardcore Punk and Metal scenes of the mid-1980’s, Moonstomper follows Steve Andersen, a Trojan Skin who does anything he can to protect his younger siblings Matt and Luna from the negative influence of their father and disgraced Chicago cop, Mike.
Living in a nearly-condemned apartment they call High Voltage, Steve and Joey Zion make sure the flophouse is filled with parties and music as they navigate the always-muddy waters of approaching adulthood.
Moonstomper is a two-fisted, suited-and-booted tale that takes the listener through Chicago’s dive bars, dark alleys, and smokey house-parties to deliver a curb-stomped world filled with Punks, Skins, Goths, Skaters, and Metalheads.

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