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Blind Switch: A Jack Doyle Mystery - Jack Doyle Series
Large type / large print edition
Paperback (01 Oct 2004)
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Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder--of the four-legged kind.... One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk--and his job--both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confident, fishes himself out of a bottle to take stock, realizing, ""with a thumping finality, that Life sure as hell did have his number and was crunching it.""~At loose ends, Doyle accepts a most unusual offer from an acquaintance, Moe Kellman, ""furrier to the Mob,"" to fix a horse race. The context of making the deal, a Cubs game at storied Wrigley Field, sets the tone for the drama that follows. Thus begins a chain of events that will lead the FBI to Doyle's door where they ""coopt"" him into a quest after people who are maiming or killing thoroughbred horses for their insurance values. Their number one target is a loathsome media mogul who can't bear to lose at anything.~Built upon recent factual events, spiced with satire and peppered throughout with engaging loonies, Blind Switch is a noteworthy first novel with a hero forced to ask in its ultimate line, ""Where have I gone right?""
Book information
ISBN: | 9781590581230 |
Publisher: | Poisoned Pen Press, Inc. |
Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 2004 |
Edition: | Large type / large print edition |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 457 |
Weight: | 689g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 27mm |