Blind Switch

John McEvoy

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English

Poisoned Pen Press
30 November 2011

Crime & Mystery; Classic crime

Series: Jack Doyle Series

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 ""co-opt"" 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?""

By: John McEvoy
Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reprint
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 375g
ISBN: 9781464200168
ISBN 10: 1464200165
Series: Jack Doyle Series
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 November 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

McEvoy is a former newspaper reporter and college english professor. He served as Midwest editor and senior writer for Daily Racing Form.