If You're Curious About These Questions...
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- Have you ever wondered what happens when a brilliant detective’s sharpest weapon—his mind—starts to crumble under the weight of past trauma just when he needs it most?
- Are you curious about how one man can navigate a deadly game of survival when he’s being hunted simultaneously by a vengeful gang leader and a sadistic hitman?
- What if you had to decide if the cost of doing the right thing was worth the lives of the people you love most?
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Key Takeaways from Fixit
- A decision, a dog collar, and the doorway that swings open
- A nurse’s hallway, a burner phone, and a ghost out of the past
- Old ground, old enemies, and a memory stick you should never open
- San Bernardino, a locked room, and a mother who knows more than she admits
- A Hollywood kitchen, a code word, and a job too dirty to do clean
Fixit — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: A decision, a dog collar, and the doorway that swings open
Chapter 3: A nurse’s hallway, a burner phone, and a ghost out of the past
Chapter 4: Old ground, old enemies, and a memory stick you should never open
Chapter 5: San Bernardino, a locked room, and a mother who knows more than she admits
Chapter 6: A Hollywood kitchen, a code word, and a job too dirty to do clean
Chapter 7: Rough plans, rough bullets, and a mother with a price
Chapter 8: The Burr job, the ambush that nearly worked, and a number that won’t move
Chapter 9: Detective Hando steps onto the field, and a church feud smolders
Chapter 10: Doorbells, diamonds, and one missing bundle
Chapter 11: Painkillers, a toilet seat lid, and the world’s slowest trap
Chapter 12: Fifty thousand reasons and the echo of screaming
Chapter 13: A mother on the steps and a plan with too many sharp edges
Chapter 14: A bent fence, a choir, and the Khan with nowhere to go
Chapter 15: A payoff with blades inside it
Chapter 16: A stash house in code, a van in motion
Chapter 17: The van, the ditch, and the kind of luck you never get twice
Chapter 18: A hospital doorway, a sentence you can’t pull back
Chapter 19: Fixing a fixer, saving a different kind of life
Chapter 20: The animal shelter burns bright
Chapter 21: Two farewells and a hole in the street
Chapter 22: Diamonds, debts, and the price of being right
Chapter 23: Aftermath and a fresh knock at the door
Fixit Summary & Overview
In Fixit, the sixth explosive entry in Joe Ide’s acclaimed IQ series, underground detective Isaiah Quintabe is barely out of a harrowing Northern California case—and barely holding himself together—when the call comes: Grace is missing. The kidnapper leaves a calling card Isaiah can’t ignore: a spike-studded dog collar that points to Skip Hanson, a sadistic hitman with a long, personal score to settle. Making matters worse, Manzo Gutiérrez, a fallen gang leader who blames Isaiah for the implosion of his empire, is hunting him, too.
What follows is a breathless chase across deserts and city streets: an abandoned motel in San Bernardino County, a botched assassination of a celebrity attorney, a cartel pipeline running through Pacoima—and a quiet animal shelter where everything erupts. With friends scraping together a ransom, cops circling, and Isaiah’s PTSD clawing back into his life, the case transforms into a raw fight for love, survival, and a way to live with the consequences.
Fixit marries hurtling plot with fierce heart: a story about loyalty, trauma, and the cost of trying to do the right thing when the world won’t let you.
Who Should Listen to Fixit?
- Fans of fast, character-driven crime fiction with emotional stakes
- Listeners who love community-centered mysteries and modern noir
- Readers drawn to stories that balance humor, trauma, and heart
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