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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 loseat 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?"

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Crime & mystery

• Full title: Blind Switch
• Subtitle: A Jack Doyle Mystery
• Author: John McEvoy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472
• EAN: 9781590581230
• ISBN: 9781590581230
• ID: 08751081
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Weight: 689 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. September 2000

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