Three Pounds (Paperback)

Drazen Ruzic

ISBN 13: 9798244455601

Published by Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS.Five Marines. One blood oath. Six years of keeping each other alive.Then Congo.Parris Island, 1995. A Croatian kid with nothing but ghosts and a desperate need to belong. He finds it in four men who become more than brothers - Rodriguez, Murphy, Doc, and Toby. They cut their palms in a hangar at midnight. Braca po krvi. Blood brothers.For six years, they survive what should have killed them. The kind of bond forged only in blood.And then they don't.Something happens in a crater in the jungle. Something Drazen will never speak of.He comes back wrong. Won't eat. Won't sleep. Won't meet their eyes.His brothers know he's drowning. They don't know why. They just know they're losing him.And they're right.Drazen is carrying a weight that's killing him from the inside - a three-pound secret dragging him toward a darkness his brothers can see but cannot reach.THREE POUNDS is about what we do for the people we love. What it costs. And whether the men who swore to die together can keep one of their own alive.Some weights can't be carried alone.Perfect for fans of Lone Survivor and The Things They Carried*, THREE POUNDS is a raw, unflinching look at the cost of war and the brotherhood that refuses to let go. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Pounds (Paperback)
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798244455601
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Four Americans and a Croatian kid who'd already survived his own war.

Murphy. Rod. Danny. Toby. And me — eighteen, just off the plane from Zagreb, thirty-six hours awake, everything I owned in a duffel that still smelled like home. Five strangers who had no business becoming anything to each other.

By the time we pressed our cut palms together and swore it — Braća po krvi, brothers by blood — we already knew exactly what each of us was capable of. We all carry the scar.

This is the story of what that oath asked of us — and what it cost.

No homecoming — just a hotel room in Crete with the curtains nailed shut. Three pounds I'll never set down. Pills, whiskey, twenty-four missed calls I wouldn't answer. I'd already decided. My brothers decided different.

So I'm still here — and I'm doing the one thing left to do: putting them on the page exactly as they were, in every language we loved each other in, so the world doesn't get to forget them.

The uniform is only where it happened. This was always about the men.

Inspired by true events.

THREE POUNDS — Book One of the Three Pounds Trilogy.