To Live & Die in Bordulac

To Live & Die in Bordulac is the first of the To Live & Die series. It takes place in 2012/2013 and tells the story of recently released convict Matthew O'Toole.

Pre-Story
By 1997, Matthew O'Toole had been dealing drugs for his brother, Vincent O'Toole. However, it went wrong when he was busted by the DEA and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. His brother, however, got nothing as he wasn't at the seen and was only the distributor. After Matthew's arrest, Vince was kicked out of their mother's house and got a job at the docks. His job, however, wasn't enough to hold him over and he began borrowing money from Maury Diamond in 2001. At some point, their sister divorced her husband and moves herself and her kids into their mother's house. In 2011, Vince stopped being able to pay his debt to Maury, who told him to start borrowing from mafia boss Alfonse Ricchese so he could pay him back. When Vince failed to pay Alfonse back, however, he and started recieving seemingly random threats from the mafia.

Story
In 2012, Matthew O'Toole is released from a 15 year stretch in prison and goes to live with Vince in his apartment when he is denied by his sister to live with her and their mother. When Vince tells Matthew that they should get back in the dealing business, Matthew is reluctant at first but accepts when he rescues Vince from being beat up and Vince tells him about the situation with the mafia. Matthew meets Vince at his job where he gives Matthew the product from a shipment of methamphetamine sent from Colombia and tells him that the buyer is at a warehouse in South Central, however when things go wrong and the buyers turn out to be undercover police officers, Matthew barely escapes and tells Vince that he'll handle the Maury problem himself.

The next day, Matthew visits Maury at his office who tells him that he knows why he's there. Maury tells him that he can help pay all of his brother's debt by doing