PROLOGUE
Carolyn
Date: February 16, 2019
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Subject: Jacob Todd “Jake” Ares
Criminal Record: Juvenile files sealed. Court-martialed, imprisoned for three months, and subsequently subjected to a bad conduct discharge from the US Army. His crime was repeatedly participating as a fighter in an underground boxing ring for pay at Joint Base San Antonio. Because Private Ares, then nineteen, had no other offenses, he was spared further discipline. Ares is estranged from his biological family, partly as a result of this incident.
Ares moved to Detroit in 2007, six months after his discharge, to pursue a career in professional mixed martial arts. However, he was unable to find a sponsor despite a string of victories on the amateur circuit, likely due as well to his ba
