Josh Scott was twenty-eight and working at a popular concert venue in South Florida during the cocaine cowboy days when a 19-year-old friend and fellow bouncer was killed in a drive-by outside the club. Josh Scott is a retired Law Enforcement Sergeant in South Florida. During his tenure, he was assigned as a Hostage Negotiator and a Supervisor in the U.S. Army. He is now a private investigator and writer. The Hurt is about the murder and subsequent trials, but also about the many lives affected by the tragedy, most deliberately Josh Scott. Josh Scott is a retired Florida State Police Officer and this is his first novel.