Summary
Smashed Back introduces us to Jack "The Hammer" Riley, a once-promising pugilist whose career was brutally curtailed by a career-ending injury in a fixed fight, leaving him with a shattered back and an even more fractured spirit. Now a ghost of his former self, working menial jobs in the city's underbelly, Jack finds his quiet despair upended when his estranged younger sister, Mary, falls into debt with a ruthless local enforcer, Silas Thorne. Haunted by his past failures and driven by a desperate need to protect the last vestige of his family, Jack must navigate a treacherous world of back-alley brawls and moral compromises, confronting not only Thorne's brutal syndicate but also the lingering specter of his own physical and emotional limitations. It’s a journey not to reclaim glory, but to find a flicker of redemption in a world that has long since forgotten his name.
