Neighborhood of Dead Ends by Stanton McCaffery

Published September 26, 2021
Now available in paperback and eBook

Neighborhood of Dead Ends is a story about the costs of fighting back.

The second novel from author / RHP Editor-in-Chief STANTON McCAFFERY (pen-name for Roger Nokes) follows Sophia Buris, a young single mother, struggling to make ends meet, who learns of efforts to level her home and entire neighborhood as part of a gentrification scheme. In a last-ditch effort to keep her home, she runs for a seat on the local Town Council to stop the development project.

When Sophia’s campaign and her criticism of the redevelopment gain attention, Rinecliff Park Mayor Sal Millitello activates his criminal network to get in her way. Once Sophia’s family and friends get involved, the entire community is dragged into a downward spiral of violence that exacts casualties on all sides.

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Here’s what people are saying:

"Neighborhood of Dead Ends is an intriguing and hard boiled examination of life at the end of the boulevard of shattered dreams. Raw and unflinching "

-S.A. Cosby author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland

“Neighborhood of Dead Ends is Stanton McCaffery’s gritty New Jersey tale of the working-class and their fight to stay above water. As a young mother, her battle-worn stepfather, and a new neighbor band together, they do their best to fight the town’s insidious and immoral plot to take away their homes. Heartbreaking yet fast-paced, Neighborhood of Dead Ends is a gripping story that will stay with you for a long time.”

-Jen Conley, Anthony Award-winning author of Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry

“Stanton McCaffery is the king of corruption, despair, and, most importantly, kicking back against the pricks.”

-Ben Whitmer, author of Pike and Cry Father

“A corrupt to the core government extends top to bottom and for the working class of America, the stuff that rolls downhill has already snowballed. Magnify the corruption in a single corrupt state like New Jersey, and then to a corrupt locality, the struggle to survive becomes the skid marks after the rubber has met the road. So it goes for Sophia, a young single mother trying to survive on working at a local convenience store. When beaten into submission by the powers that be, what one does next determines one’s fate and it’s not always good. Neighborhood of Dead Ends is a definite page turner.”

-Charlie Stella, author of Johnny Porno and Tommy Red