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Red Laces
Some people deserve what’s coming to them…
Tank is a scumbag. Drugs, booze, hard-core punk rock, and white supremacist hate, that’s what his life is about. Yet everything is going great for him. His band-the Zyklon Boys-are getting recognition and he’s the star of a despicable subculture. Even the infamous Darcy Cutter thinks highly enough of Tank to include him in an upcoming clandestine celebration. But when a break-in goes wrong, Tank commits a violent hate crime, proving how dark his true colors really are and sending the Zyklon Boys into disarray.
Tank is a scumbag. Drugs, booze, hard-core punk rock, and white supremacist hate, that’s what his life is about. Yet everything is going great for him. His band-the Zyklon Boys-are getting recognition and he’s the star of a despicable subculture. Even the infamous Darcy Cutter thinks highly enough of Tank to include him in an upcoming clandestine celebration. But when a break-in goes wrong, Tank commits a violent hate crime, proving how dark his true colors really are and sending the Zyklon Boys into disarray.
82 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2024
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January 25, 2025
Karma hits a nazi right in the face.
nazi punks FUCK OFF 🖕🏽
nazi punks FUCK OFF 🖕🏽
August 27, 2024
Brutally violent and psychologically damaging… my heart broke for the victims in this story and raged for revenge against the foul main character.
“My voice is a weapon; a cannon, gatling gun, and sniper rifle all rolled into one.”
A white power band and their horrific leader journey on a path of evil, showcasing their brutality and how one would “earn” their Red Laces. Things end up in a very twisted resolution for Tank.
This story will definitely make you mad. I can’t believe people like the Zyklon Boys do actually exist in real life. Just sad.
“I am shaved heads, tank tops, and violent tattoos. The embodiment of might-makes-right, and the killing floor for all of those who stand opposed to my way of life.”
“My voice is a weapon; a cannon, gatling gun, and sniper rifle all rolled into one.”
A white power band and their horrific leader journey on a path of evil, showcasing their brutality and how one would “earn” their Red Laces. Things end up in a very twisted resolution for Tank.
This story will definitely make you mad. I can’t believe people like the Zyklon Boys do actually exist in real life. Just sad.
“I am shaved heads, tank tops, and violent tattoos. The embodiment of might-makes-right, and the killing floor for all of those who stand opposed to my way of life.”
February 3, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5
*I'm not going to give you the whole 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.
1. Holy freaking crap, he’s done it again! I am unashamedly a Colt Skinner stan.
2. Skinner has an unmistakable writing style that I absolutely love. He isn’t overly flowery or poetic in the way Khaw or LaRocca tend to write, but his descriptions are so real and accurate that it gives his style a little extra something. I don’t really know how to explain it, but I eat it up:
“My voice is a weapon a cannon, gatling gun, and sniper rifle all rolled into one.” Pg 2.
“Rocket is a lame dog, dragging his broken hind legs behind himself while he pisses everywhere.” Pg 31
3. I didn’t know much about this one when I started reading, and the first couple of pages had me fooled. The old bait and switch. I can’t say much more here without ruining it, but I was disappointed by page 4. *Not in the story! In the people in the story. Which also made me happy that it’s a horror book because I was eager for some shizz to go down.
4. The ending was the perfect karma, but it’s not super obvious. It’s an ending that at first left me feeling like I wanted more, but when I realized what it exactly meant for Tank (the main character), I was relieved at the quiet genius-ness of the situation.
5. F**k Nazis, am I right?!!
*I'm not going to give you the whole 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.
1. Holy freaking crap, he’s done it again! I am unashamedly a Colt Skinner stan.
2. Skinner has an unmistakable writing style that I absolutely love. He isn’t overly flowery or poetic in the way Khaw or LaRocca tend to write, but his descriptions are so real and accurate that it gives his style a little extra something. I don’t really know how to explain it, but I eat it up:
“My voice is a weapon a cannon, gatling gun, and sniper rifle all rolled into one.” Pg 2.
“Rocket is a lame dog, dragging his broken hind legs behind himself while he pisses everywhere.” Pg 31
3. I didn’t know much about this one when I started reading, and the first couple of pages had me fooled. The old bait and switch. I can’t say much more here without ruining it, but I was disappointed by page 4. *Not in the story! In the people in the story. Which also made me happy that it’s a horror book because I was eager for some shizz to go down.
4. The ending was the perfect karma, but it’s not super obvious. It’s an ending that at first left me feeling like I wanted more, but when I realized what it exactly meant for Tank (the main character), I was relieved at the quiet genius-ness of the situation.
5. F**k Nazis, am I right?!!
July 22, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Red Laces by Colt Skinner is an unflinching, brutal masterpiece that rips the mask off the neo-Nazi punk underground and forces you to look at the rot beneath.
This book doesn’t just tell a story, it dismantles an entire mindset. It drags you, boots-first, into the vile, hate-soaked subculture of white power punk and shows you exactly how it festers: through ego, delusion, and unchecked rage. Tank, the protagonist in name only, is a garbage fire of a human being.. drugs, booze, misogyny, and an obsession with violence wrapped in the red laces of white supremacist pride.
But Skinner isn’t writing for shock value. He’s making a statement, about how hate is cultivated, rewarded, and turned into identity. About how these scenes radicalize broken men. About the sick glamor of being “infamous” in circles where depravity is currency. And then, he obliterates it all. One decision, one hate crime, and everything Tank built crumbles, revealing just how empty and cowardly this so-called ideology really is.
The social commentary is razor-sharp, from the name of the band (Zyklon Boys, a horrifying nod to Zyklon B)to the way the group starts to fall apart once real consequences hit. There’s no redemption arc, no softened edges. Just raw, ugly truth.
And that ending?
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
It detonates like a pipe bomb and leaves you staring at the wall, trying to process what you just read in under 200 pages. It’s poetic justice served through gritted teeth.
Colt Skinner doesn’t waste a single word. This short novel hits harder than books twice its length, and it will haunt anyone who’s ever seen hate hidden behind a subcultural aesthetic. It’s phenomenal. Relentless. Important.
And it will stick with you long after the blood dries.
Read it. And then sit with it.
Red Laces by Colt Skinner is an unflinching, brutal masterpiece that rips the mask off the neo-Nazi punk underground and forces you to look at the rot beneath.
This book doesn’t just tell a story, it dismantles an entire mindset. It drags you, boots-first, into the vile, hate-soaked subculture of white power punk and shows you exactly how it festers: through ego, delusion, and unchecked rage. Tank, the protagonist in name only, is a garbage fire of a human being.. drugs, booze, misogyny, and an obsession with violence wrapped in the red laces of white supremacist pride.
But Skinner isn’t writing for shock value. He’s making a statement, about how hate is cultivated, rewarded, and turned into identity. About how these scenes radicalize broken men. About the sick glamor of being “infamous” in circles where depravity is currency. And then, he obliterates it all. One decision, one hate crime, and everything Tank built crumbles, revealing just how empty and cowardly this so-called ideology really is.
The social commentary is razor-sharp, from the name of the band (Zyklon Boys, a horrifying nod to Zyklon B)to the way the group starts to fall apart once real consequences hit. There’s no redemption arc, no softened edges. Just raw, ugly truth.
And that ending?
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
It detonates like a pipe bomb and leaves you staring at the wall, trying to process what you just read in under 200 pages. It’s poetic justice served through gritted teeth.
Colt Skinner doesn’t waste a single word. This short novel hits harder than books twice its length, and it will haunt anyone who’s ever seen hate hidden behind a subcultural aesthetic. It’s phenomenal. Relentless. Important.
And it will stick with you long after the blood dries.
Read it. And then sit with it.
June 2, 2025
This is a really heavy read.
It's brutal, physically but mostly psychologically. The main character is incredibly well written and believable. As hateful as he is, it is still possible to understand where he comes from and empathize with him, to an extent. The book allows us to understand him without excusing him. I also loved the ending
It's brutal, physically but mostly psychologically. The main character is incredibly well written and believable. As hateful as he is, it is still possible to understand where he comes from and empathize with him, to an extent. The book allows us to understand him without excusing him. I also loved the ending
November 20, 2024
This is a brutal, violent, gritty, emotional read with a twisted ending. Sometimes you really do reap what you sow and get what you deserve. A awesome short read. Go to godless.com and check this one out.
September 16, 2025
Great story. Well developed characters that are easy to hate. The ending was a surprise, and the book was engaging. Check it out.
April 16, 2026
This is one of the best reads Ive had in a long time. I didn't go in expecting more than a story of a bunch of violent irredeemable hate criminals getting into violence against the innocent. I did not expect a story of grooming, vulnerability, psychological instability, and spiritual reckoning that would rip my heart from my chest. Without giving spoilers, there is a particular use of mirroring in the scene of the main crime reflected in the scene of the punishment that brought tears to my eyes. The narrator, as brutal and violent as he is, also shows moments of genuine human fragility that give us access into the factors that made him a perfect target for hate-based grooming, makes us bare witness to his manipulation at the hands of his groomer directly, and the occasional horrifying reminder that the story is being narrated by a brainwashed minor so abused neglected and manipulated that he considers the idea of somebody helping another human in need as conspiratorial and is bewildered to feel any sense of affection from an adult who did not first demand the price of his soul. The ending is both tragic and morally satisfying and the pacing is on point throughout the entire piece. I wish I could give this book 10 stars.
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