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Tenure 2: Social Street Justice 101
They say no one is coming to help you. They haven’t met Braxton Knox.
In Indianapolis, a candy store owner is forced out of business by online social justice warriors. They harass him mercilessly, shut down his store, and threaten his friends, until even his wife and child can’t take it anymore… and leave.
Jason Higby thinks his life is over and the woke have won.
But Jason isn’t alone.When Braxton Knox hears of his plight, he and his team go to Indy. Their bring about the kind of justice that no one else can.
It won’t be easy. The online thugs bring real-life muscle into play, and new allies and enemies enter the fray. But Knox is heavily armed, and he isn’t looking for apologies; he’s looking for justice. He’s going to Indianapolis to set things right—with a price to be paid in blood and pain.
Brought to you by Mike Baron (Flash and The Punisher) and political thriller/sci-fi author Blaine Pardoe, the Tenure series evokes the Mack Bolan Executioner series for a modern audience.
Social Street Justice…it’s what the woke need to fear.
Jason Higby thinks his life is over and the woke have won.
But Jason isn’t alone.When Braxton Knox hears of his plight, he and his team go to Indy. Their bring about the kind of justice that no one else can.
It won’t be easy. The online thugs bring real-life muscle into play, and new allies and enemies enter the fray. But Knox is heavily armed, and he isn’t looking for apologies; he’s looking for justice. He’s going to Indianapolis to set things right—with a price to be paid in blood and pain.
Brought to you by Mike Baron (Flash and The Punisher) and political thriller/sci-fi author Blaine Pardoe, the Tenure series evokes the Mack Bolan Executioner series for a modern audience.
Social Street Justice…it’s what the woke need to fear.
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Published March 13, 2025
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September 4, 2025
Pardoe and Baron have again co-authored a good book. Prior to this sequel Braxton had lost his wife, child and career. He now steps steps out in the world to help others in similar situations. As they say, “what goes around comes around”.
The resulting writing is a quick page turner with unending action, sadness, conflict, resolution and strong emotions.
I give this a 4.5/5 but ended up rounding up to a 5 for it is a worthy read.
The resulting writing is a quick page turner with unending action, sadness, conflict, resolution and strong emotions.
I give this a 4.5/5 but ended up rounding up to a 5 for it is a worthy read.
December 31, 2025
Wow! What a novel to end 2025 on!
(They say no one is coming to help you. They haven’t met Braxton Knox. In Indianapolis, a candy store owner is forced out of business by online social justice warriors. They harass him mercilessly, shut down his store, and threaten his friends, until even his wife and child can’t take it anymore… and leave.
Jason Higby thinks his life is over and the woke have won.
But Jason isn’t alone.When Braxton Knox hears of his plight, he and his team go to Indy. Their bring about the kind of justice that no one else can.
It won’t be easy. The online thugs bring real-life muscle into play, and new allies and enemies enter the fray. But Knox is heavily armed, and he isn’t looking for apologies; he’s looking for justice. He’s going to Indianapolis to set things right—with a price to be paid in blood and pain.
Brought to you by Mike Baron (Flash and The Punisher) and political thriller/sci-fi author Blaine Pardoe, the Tenure series evokes the Mack Bolan Executioner series for a modern audience.
Social Street Justice…it’s what the woke need to fear.) ~ Blurb from Goodreads
In terms of quality, the kills were a lot more consistent this time around. Now, there aren't as many kills here compared to the last one and you do have to wait until halfway through to actually see Braxton kill someone. But what you do get is still really interesting and well thought out. They play on the idea of "Oh, that makes sense to do here." Like, in chapter twenty-eight, This is actually ingenious.
There were some genuinely hilarious moments too. In chapter In chapter
I was actually quite surprised by how it handled a few minor characters. For example, in chapter This can also be seen in chapter seven with
The character development for the major characters, though, was rather hit and miss.
Like, there was a ton of genuinely interesting character development for Braxton. In addition to that one scene in , it's clear that while he has come a long way, it's also clear that he still has some more growing to do. For example, he frequently struggles to make himself dinner and constantly has to adjust old recipes so that they only feed one person. He also learns how to be a crack shot without depending on technology. Also, in the last entry, In this entry, it's clearly shown that this one incident really affected Braxton to the point where he tries everything he can to not get into that situation again. Braxton goes harder than he should in his combat training at Valhalla Academy and he accepts an offer from his trainer to hook him up with a guy that sells special utility belts equipped with escape tools. What's even more compelling about all this is that
However, most of the side characters (including journalist Faye and tech guy Ronin) are severely neglected in this department, even when there is a prime opportunity for character development. For example, Also, the most character development Ronin gets I guess is that he doesn't like his real name and that he knows a little about farming. I'm not expecting to know every single little thing about Ronin and Faye, but considering that they play a prominent enough role to practically be main characters, I expected so much more.
Also, there was this weird inconsistency in chapter thirteen. So Murray and Jack go to a local bar to talk with Faye and they order cheeseburgers. But in this same chapter, the bartender is described as "... bringing the boys’ hamburgers." Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure hamburgers and cheeseburgers are two different things. If this inconsistency were used in a way to show that the chef got their orders wrong or something, that would be one thing. But the novel doesn't even go that route, despite the fact that this series has multiple moments of characters receiving the wrong order at a restaurant (like how Braxton got egg on his breakfast sandwich in the previous entry, even though he asked for no egg and so on), so it just comes off like a plain old inconsistency that was never dealt with or caught.
I also think this novel kind of fumbled in the technology department at times. In chapter twenty-seven, Ronin notices that Percy's IP address has changed twice. Braxton asks if it's because Percy is on the move and rather than Ronin assuming Percy is using a VPN to change his IP address to hide his location while on his moral crusading, Ronin agrees with Braxton. Why? What made Ronin just brush off this possibility? Are the IP addresses too close in geographic proximity for that possibilty to make sense? Do Ronin and Braxton still believe that Percy is not very intelligent? Seriously, I feel like I missed something. In chapter forty-one, Ronin and the gang are trying to get security footage from a local liquor store in order to get more info on the assassin hired to take out Braxton. Ronin intentionally disables the online ordering function and the owner of the liquor store tells Ronin about the issue and Ronin offers to help. Okay, all fine and good so far. However, when Ronin is looking over what I assume is the Admin Dashboard page, the narration describes what are clearly supposed to be plugins (or smaller components meant to add functionality to a larger thing like a website [i.e WooCommerce added to a WordPress website to enable eCommerce functionality) as "Apps". There's also a moment in this same chapter where Ronin accesses a local Maryland gym's locker room security footage in order to confirm the existence of a locker number he got from a victim of the assassin's credit card theft. Yeah no. Under Maryland law, having surveillance cameras in locker rooms is illegal. If this was used to show that the gym was shady, that would be believable. But as far as I can tell, that is not at all the case. Although it would've been silly and a bit convenient, I think it would've also been more believable if Ronin called up a buddy of his that went to that gym and asked him to confirm if that gym has a locker with that specific number.
I had a really tough time connecting with Faye as well. So within the first few chapters or so, the novel switches to Faye's point of view and most of her page time is just her spewing long diatribes about how modern society sucks. I think it's the worst in chapter five where we get entire essay long excerpts from her work in progress novel about how modern society sucks and how politicians are evil and self serving. Hell, even the guy fumbling with his bag while Faye's airplane is trying to land isn't spared from getting a diatribe about him. Now, to be fair, she doesn't get any other parts where she's the sole POV character and she does get less didactic as the novel goes on, but between those initial POV parts and , it is just not enough to make up for how soured my perception of the character was. If Faye was indeed a character I was meant to connect with, then going deeper into the or even cutting some of those essay long excerpts would've been a major help.
Much like the last entry, this entry was rather preachy and on the nose at times. In addition to Faye's initial POV parts, I think this is very much noticeable in the prologue. In the prologue, Ronin goes on a paragraph long rant about the people who ruined the life of a baker named Higby, saying, "These kinds of people are a plague. [...] They don’t contribute to society. They exist to cause chaos and bring others down, people who don’t believe exactly what they do. I’ve been looking at the posts these people put up and it is wild to see how bizarre their belief systems are. It’s not just about progressive values, whatever those are, it’s about this bizarre flexible set of morals that are constantly in flux. There’s no consistency in what they post. It’s all just hate." Not only does this not sound like something an actual person would say, but the prologue already went into detail about how this group ruined Higby's life and the lives of others, effectively showing everything that Ronin is saying. There's also this part in chapter ten, "Rory was angry. His face reddened as he pivoted to face Percy directly." Yeah, for some reason, this part feels the need to both tell the reader how Rory is feeling and show how Rory is feeling at the same time. I don't know about you, but to me, that combination of a reddened face, swift movement, and direct eye contact very clearly communicates anger, making me question why the first sentence of this part wasn't just left on the cutting room floor.
Overall, Tenure 2: Social Street Justice 101 was a novel that did fall into some of the same traps that the previous entry did, but it was still genuinely entertaining, clever, and fun.
Overall Grade: B-
(They say no one is coming to help you. They haven’t met Braxton Knox. In Indianapolis, a candy store owner is forced out of business by online social justice warriors. They harass him mercilessly, shut down his store, and threaten his friends, until even his wife and child can’t take it anymore… and leave.
Jason Higby thinks his life is over and the woke have won.
But Jason isn’t alone.When Braxton Knox hears of his plight, he and his team go to Indy. Their bring about the kind of justice that no one else can.
It won’t be easy. The online thugs bring real-life muscle into play, and new allies and enemies enter the fray. But Knox is heavily armed, and he isn’t looking for apologies; he’s looking for justice. He’s going to Indianapolis to set things right—with a price to be paid in blood and pain.
Brought to you by Mike Baron (Flash and The Punisher) and political thriller/sci-fi author Blaine Pardoe, the Tenure series evokes the Mack Bolan Executioner series for a modern audience.
Social Street Justice…it’s what the woke need to fear.) ~ Blurb from Goodreads
In terms of quality, the kills were a lot more consistent this time around. Now, there aren't as many kills here compared to the last one and you do have to wait until halfway through to actually see Braxton kill someone. But what you do get is still really interesting and well thought out. They play on the idea of "Oh, that makes sense to do here." Like, in chapter twenty-eight, This is actually ingenious.
There were some genuinely hilarious moments too. In chapter In chapter
I was actually quite surprised by how it handled a few minor characters. For example, in chapter This can also be seen in chapter seven with
The character development for the major characters, though, was rather hit and miss.
Like, there was a ton of genuinely interesting character development for Braxton. In addition to that one scene in , it's clear that while he has come a long way, it's also clear that he still has some more growing to do. For example, he frequently struggles to make himself dinner and constantly has to adjust old recipes so that they only feed one person. He also learns how to be a crack shot without depending on technology. Also, in the last entry, In this entry, it's clearly shown that this one incident really affected Braxton to the point where he tries everything he can to not get into that situation again. Braxton goes harder than he should in his combat training at Valhalla Academy and he accepts an offer from his trainer to hook him up with a guy that sells special utility belts equipped with escape tools. What's even more compelling about all this is that
However, most of the side characters (including journalist Faye and tech guy Ronin) are severely neglected in this department, even when there is a prime opportunity for character development. For example, Also, the most character development Ronin gets I guess is that he doesn't like his real name and that he knows a little about farming. I'm not expecting to know every single little thing about Ronin and Faye, but considering that they play a prominent enough role to practically be main characters, I expected so much more.
Also, there was this weird inconsistency in chapter thirteen. So Murray and Jack go to a local bar to talk with Faye and they order cheeseburgers. But in this same chapter, the bartender is described as "... bringing the boys’ hamburgers." Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure hamburgers and cheeseburgers are two different things. If this inconsistency were used in a way to show that the chef got their orders wrong or something, that would be one thing. But the novel doesn't even go that route, despite the fact that this series has multiple moments of characters receiving the wrong order at a restaurant (like how Braxton got egg on his breakfast sandwich in the previous entry, even though he asked for no egg and so on), so it just comes off like a plain old inconsistency that was never dealt with or caught.
I also think this novel kind of fumbled in the technology department at times. In chapter twenty-seven, Ronin notices that Percy's IP address has changed twice. Braxton asks if it's because Percy is on the move and rather than Ronin assuming Percy is using a VPN to change his IP address to hide his location while on his moral crusading, Ronin agrees with Braxton. Why? What made Ronin just brush off this possibility? Are the IP addresses too close in geographic proximity for that possibilty to make sense? Do Ronin and Braxton still believe that Percy is not very intelligent? Seriously, I feel like I missed something. In chapter forty-one, Ronin and the gang are trying to get security footage from a local liquor store in order to get more info on the assassin hired to take out Braxton. Ronin intentionally disables the online ordering function and the owner of the liquor store tells Ronin about the issue and Ronin offers to help. Okay, all fine and good so far. However, when Ronin is looking over what I assume is the Admin Dashboard page, the narration describes what are clearly supposed to be plugins (or smaller components meant to add functionality to a larger thing like a website [i.e WooCommerce added to a WordPress website to enable eCommerce functionality) as "Apps". There's also a moment in this same chapter where Ronin accesses a local Maryland gym's locker room security footage in order to confirm the existence of a locker number he got from a victim of the assassin's credit card theft. Yeah no. Under Maryland law, having surveillance cameras in locker rooms is illegal. If this was used to show that the gym was shady, that would be believable. But as far as I can tell, that is not at all the case. Although it would've been silly and a bit convenient, I think it would've also been more believable if Ronin called up a buddy of his that went to that gym and asked him to confirm if that gym has a locker with that specific number.
I had a really tough time connecting with Faye as well. So within the first few chapters or so, the novel switches to Faye's point of view and most of her page time is just her spewing long diatribes about how modern society sucks. I think it's the worst in chapter five where we get entire essay long excerpts from her work in progress novel about how modern society sucks and how politicians are evil and self serving. Hell, even the guy fumbling with his bag while Faye's airplane is trying to land isn't spared from getting a diatribe about him. Now, to be fair, she doesn't get any other parts where she's the sole POV character and she does get less didactic as the novel goes on, but between those initial POV parts and , it is just not enough to make up for how soured my perception of the character was. If Faye was indeed a character I was meant to connect with, then going deeper into the or even cutting some of those essay long excerpts would've been a major help.
Much like the last entry, this entry was rather preachy and on the nose at times. In addition to Faye's initial POV parts, I think this is very much noticeable in the prologue. In the prologue, Ronin goes on a paragraph long rant about the people who ruined the life of a baker named Higby, saying, "These kinds of people are a plague. [...] They don’t contribute to society. They exist to cause chaos and bring others down, people who don’t believe exactly what they do. I’ve been looking at the posts these people put up and it is wild to see how bizarre their belief systems are. It’s not just about progressive values, whatever those are, it’s about this bizarre flexible set of morals that are constantly in flux. There’s no consistency in what they post. It’s all just hate." Not only does this not sound like something an actual person would say, but the prologue already went into detail about how this group ruined Higby's life and the lives of others, effectively showing everything that Ronin is saying. There's also this part in chapter ten, "Rory was angry. His face reddened as he pivoted to face Percy directly." Yeah, for some reason, this part feels the need to both tell the reader how Rory is feeling and show how Rory is feeling at the same time. I don't know about you, but to me, that combination of a reddened face, swift movement, and direct eye contact very clearly communicates anger, making me question why the first sentence of this part wasn't just left on the cutting room floor.
Overall, Tenure 2: Social Street Justice 101 was a novel that did fall into some of the same traps that the previous entry did, but it was still genuinely entertaining, clever, and fun.
Overall Grade: B-
April 4, 2025
Not much to redeem the USA here
Both this book and the previous one have obvious gun handling problems. I can live with that. The first book was a good look at what happens when people someone's life is destroyed and they have nothing left to live for. This book examines what happens when that same person gets into his own echo chamber and ends up going way too far. I'm not sure the author sees it that way. There are no good guys in this book. Only flawed characters that take actions that should have been prevented by a society that takes justice seriously instead of letting politics rule supreme.
Both this book and the previous one have obvious gun handling problems. I can live with that. The first book was a good look at what happens when people someone's life is destroyed and they have nothing left to live for. This book examines what happens when that same person gets into his own echo chamber and ends up going way too far. I'm not sure the author sees it that way. There are no good guys in this book. Only flawed characters that take actions that should have been prevented by a society that takes justice seriously instead of letting politics rule supreme.
April 18, 2025
I love this book..
I love this book, but someone needs to read and check for double words, it throws me off.😂 Then I have to go back and re-read and re-focus. This is a really good series.
I love this book, but someone needs to read and check for double words, it throws me off.😂 Then I have to go back and re-read and re-focus. This is a really good series.
September 25, 2025
great book
This is the second in the series, and it keeps getting better. If you’re not a fan of the Woke and think people should be held accountable for their actions then this is the book series for you.
This is the second in the series, and it keeps getting better. If you’re not a fan of the Woke and think people should be held accountable for their actions then this is the book series for you.
March 26, 2025
Love this series already!!!
I can't wait for the next one to come out! Great read for those tired of the woke garbage!
More please!
I can't wait for the next one to come out! Great read for those tired of the woke garbage!
More please!
March 27, 2025
Love this series. If you believe in progressive politics, you probably want to avoid. I truly hope the author keeps the series going.
April 14, 2025
Great Read
Highly recommend I can’t wait for the next one. I enjoyed this book very much, I hope there will be more books coming out
Highly recommend I can’t wait for the next one. I enjoyed this book very much, I hope there will be more books coming out
June 27, 2025
Sophomore slump, I hate to say it because book 1 made my best of 24 list. I'll do a full vid on the channel.
July 31, 2025
Dirty Harry AW
The fox story at the end was 109% real life true. Absolute madness. Great series. The country is doomed unless........
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The fox story at the end was 109% real life true. Absolute madness. Great series. The country is doomed unless........
.
August 23, 2025
A Cure for Wokeness
Excellent!!! Describes today's world in a nutshell and the WOKE generation who are trying to destroy this country from within.
Excellent!!! Describes today's world in a nutshell and the WOKE generation who are trying to destroy this country from within.
August 26, 2025
good story
The story is orthodox five stars but the language is horrible. He really loves the “f” word and blasphemy. I won’t be reading any more of his books.
The story is orthodox five stars but the language is horrible. He really loves the “f” word and blasphemy. I won’t be reading any more of his books.
September 24, 2025
Good
For a man that was trained because he didn't want to end up in a trunk again, apparently he didn't learn anything. Should sue his trainer.
For a man that was trained because he didn't want to end up in a trunk again, apparently he didn't learn anything. Should sue his trainer.
December 28, 2025
great series
Very timely only wish it was true. The books in this series point out a lot of the craziness that is currently going on in this country.
Very timely only wish it was true. The books in this series point out a lot of the craziness that is currently going on in this country.
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