Say Less

Everybody heard what happened. Nobody knew the truth.

Maurice "Moe" built his life the loud way-fast money, expensive liquor, women, pills, wild nights, and stories that always seemed to grow a little bigger every time he told them.

On Chicago's East Side, Moe's mouth is more than personality. It's hustle. Armor. Entertainment. And, eventually, a weapon pointed back at himself.

Then three masked men storm his apartment looking for a hundred thousand dollars Moe swore he had.

The problem?

He lied.

What begins as a robbery quickly becomes something darker. Old resentments rise to the surface. Friendships begin to fracture. A woman Moe wants to keep starts seeing the man underneath the performance. And a buried night from years earlier-one Moe barely remembers and someone else never forgot-starts moving toward him.

Desperate to find the men who robbed him, Moe follows every rumor, every voice, and every betrayal deeper into a web of consequences he helped create.

Because in a city that remembers everything, every boast has an audience. Every lie leaves a witness.

And sooner or later, the truth comes to collect.

SAY LESS is a gritty Chicago crime novel about friendship, ego, loyalty, addiction, memory, and the devastating cost of becoming trapped inside the stories you tell about yourself.

If you like raw urban crime fiction, morally complicated characters, psychological tension, betrayal, and cinematic storytelling, SAY LESS pulls you into a world where everybody has a version of the story-

but only one of them is true.