Fast break that is the title of this book. This book explains how this twelve year old boy named Jayson Branes grows-up and how hard times he had to go though. Jayson is not a ordinary twelve year old, his mom was killed and no longer would be Jayson or anyone at all. So Jayson to live by-himself. He had no money and a really bad apartment. But the one love he had was Basketball. Basketball is all he really had. His friends would call him snap because he would blow right pass his defender. ” You see him now you don’t”. Jayson would go to the store and steal bread because he had no money hoping that he would get out of the store without getting in trouble.