Blood of My Blood

Lyga, Barry. Blood of My Blood. Book 3 of the Jasper Dent series. 2014. 472p. ISBN 978-0-316-19870-7. Available at FIC LYG on the library shelves.

Lying in a pool of his own blood, Jazz awakens only to find himself still in Hat and Dog’s storage unit in Brooklyn (See Game). At the same time, Connie awakens to find herself in Billy Dent’s clutches, in a rundown apartment in the same neighborhood as Jazz. Finally, Howie also wakes up, only to discover he is at the hospital following his botched assault on Samantha, Jazz’s aunt.

The three teens, all in life-threatening situations, are all in their own way at the mercy of Billy Dent. Before leaving to retrieve Jazz from the storage unit, he ties Connie to a chair and locks her up in a bedroom. There she discovers that there is one other person locked with her: Janice Dent, Jazz’s mother. Together they manage to free Connie and she escapes just as Billy returns to the apartment.

Meanwhile, Billy finds Jazz and closes the bullet wound in his leg, before placing an anonymous 911 call so that the police can come and retrieve Jazz. He then goes to Hat’s house, where he kills him in a gruesome way for hurting his boy.

Howie finds out that Jazz’s grandmother survived, but she is quickly killed by a woman the police suspects was Samantha Dent.

Escaping from police custody, Jazz makes his way to Lobo Nod to confront Billy, who has hinted this is where he would go next. Connie, surviving a trip to the hospital, also returns to the Nod, where she is reunited with Howie.

Jazz gets the chance to confront the Dent killers, but this battle could cost him his life, or, worse, he could become the ultimate killer just as Dear Old Dad had predicted. In the final battle of this series, all bets are off and the Game is about to end...