We Will See You Bleed
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- Expected Jul 7, 2026
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
"We Will See You Bleed is a thriller in the best sense. You can’t put the damn thing down, and the story of these down-and-outs fighting the powers that be will stay with you a long time. Solid-gold guarantee." —Stephen King
It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionne’s hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted.
As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canada’s decline. She's sworn off violence since killing a man when she was a teenager, and has stuck to this vow even as it's become clear that only violence can save their community. When Babs’ best friend Rita returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something else: the men may be broken, but the women are furious, ready to do whatever necessary to take back Little Canada.
They just need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods fifteen years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already knows: that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.
Poignant, unflinching, and brimming with sharp humor, We Will See You Bleed is a triumphant second installment in this electrifying crime thriller series by award-winning author Ron Currie.
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Currie's sterling prequel to The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne unfolds in the final days of a yearlong labor strike at a paper mill in 1980s Waterville, Maine. Production at the mill, long the backbone of Waterville's economy, has ground to a halt, pushing the community to the brink of ruin. Babs Dionne, a 29-year-old labor leader, and her husband, Rheal, know they can't hold out for much longer without support from other unions. When Babs's best friend Rita returns to town after years in New York City, she puts a radical idea in Babs's head: if the system won't fight for them, they'll have to wage a war against it. After discovering that the mill's owner has enlisted a criminal network run by local drug kingpin Harold Aucoin to break the strike, Babs retaliates, forcing Aucoin's crew out of town, stealing their drugs, and seizing his territory. As tensions rise between neighbors over crossed picket lines, the Dionnes form an uneasy alliance with Waterville's crooked police, bending the law in a desperate bid to put money back in locals' pockets. With muscular prose and palpable empathy, Currie deepens his already epic crime series. It's a winner.
