The Barfly

THE BARFLY

A Novel by G. Thompson

Justice failed her once.
Now she’s learned to pour her own.

In the dim light of Los Angeles’s forgotten bars, Sara Flynn drinks to remember-and to forget. A survivor of abuse and the system that looked away, she has begun to hunt the kind of men the law forgives: the charming predators, the ones who walk free. Each night, she watches, chooses, and decides who won’t make it home.

Across town, Detective Michael Wade is piecing together a pattern no one wants to see-four dead men, all with reputations better left unspoken, all ruled accidents. He’s been in the job long enough to know when something is wrong, and too long to believe justice ever comes clean.

When their paths cross, hunter and investigator are drawn into the same darkness-the blurred line between punishment and redemption, between what the law allows and what conscience demands.

The Barfly is a stark, unflinching portrait of trauma, addiction, and the quiet violence of survival-a story about those who break the cycle, and those who become it.