Rare Pull

Three men. One binder. Twenty-two years of unfinished business. Marcus "Marc" Thibodaux is thirty-six, recently divorced, and sleeping on his own couch in Baton Rouge. His life has settled into a rhythm he didn't choose — wake up, go to work at the chemical plant, come home, repeat. Then two old friends show up on a Friday night and everything shifts. Dontrell "Trell" Batiste hasn't changed — still loud, still restless, still running on energy he can't aim. Elijah "Eli" Landry has — three years of silence turned him into someone Marc barely recognizes. But when a mushroom trip on Marc's back porch unlocks a memory none of them have talked about since middle school, the three of them find themselves planning something none of them expected: a break-in. The target is their old school. The prize is a stolen Pokémon card collection worth a small fortune — cards they took from a kid named Terry Portier in 2002 and hid in a ceiling tile. The plan is simple. The execution is not. RARE PULL is a novel about friendship, guilt, and the things we bury — in ceilings, in silence, in ourselves. It is funny, profane, and full of heart. Set across one weekend in Baton Rouge, it asks a question most people spend their whole lives avoiding: what do you owe the people you hurt when you were too young to know better?