The Price of Power: Gritty Urban Fiction – the Price of Power Reveals the True Cost of the Game Street Boys : Blood & Bottles Book

BLOOD & BOTTLES: THE PRICE OF POWERThe empire is rising. But every throne is built on blood.After the brutal events that shattered their world, Zee Khan stands at a crossroads. The streets of 1990s London are calling—not with the voice of survival, but with the seductive whisper of power. A chance meeting with Zack, a ruthless operator controlling the city’s protection rackets, opens a door to something bigger than Zee ever imagined. Money. Territory. Control.But power doesn’t come cheap. And neither does ambition.When Zee accepts an offer to take over the drug supply from Kings Cross to Highbury, he steps into a world where one wrong move means death. A world where childhood friends become liabilities, where loyalty is tested with a screwdriver and fists, and where the line between predator and prey blurs in an instant.On a rain-soaked London street, Zee faces Rat Face—a vicious racist thug with nothing to lose. What begins as a confrontation becomes a fight for survival. A screwdriver flashes in the dying light. Blood spills on cracked pavement. In those brutal, visceral moments, Zee discovers something about himself: he’s willing to do whatever it takes to survive. To rise. To dominate.But survival comes with a price.As Zee and his younger brother Raz begin their takeover, they’re not alone. Their youngest brother Shaq—featured in the parallel Shaq’s Origin series—is making his own mark in the streets. While Zee and Raz build their criminal empire, Shaq is proving himself in school, defeating bullies one by one, earning respect through sheer willpower and grit. The Khan brothers are rising together, each on their own path, each paying their own price.The Golden Dragon—a mysterious Asian gang with serious connections—extends an offer that could change everything. Cocaine. Truckloads of it. Profits that would make them untouchable. But accepting means stepping into a league where the stakes are life and death, where one mistake erases you from existence.The Price of Power is the explosive fourth installment in the Drummond Street Boys saga—a raw, unflinching portrait of ambition, brotherhood, and the brutal cost of carving out an empire in the shadows of London’s streets.From the rain-soaked alleys of Kings Cross to the glittering clubs of the West End, from protection rackets to drug distribution networks, Zee Khan discovers that power isn’t just about money or territory. It’s about being willing to do things that change you forever.Perfect for fans of Top Boy, The Wire, Trainspotting, and gritty street-level crime fiction that doesn’t pull punches. If you crave stories about survival, loyalty, and the impossible choices made when the system abandons you, this is your book.The streets don’t forgive. The game doesn’t pause. And once you’re in, there’s no turning back.Discover the interconnected universe of the Drummond Street Boys. Read Zee and Raz’s rise to power in the main trilogy, then follow Shaq’s parallel journey in the Shaq’s Origin series—where you’ll see the younger brother’s evolution from bullied kid to respected fighter, happening at the same time as his brothers build their empire.Book 4 in the Blood & Bottles series. A standalone story within the Drummond Street Boys Universe.