Author: Stan D. Jensen Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781547296583 Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
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Note: This paperback version "Description" appears properly formatted on Createspace. However, it does not on Amazon. On Amazon, please refer to the Kindle version for a properly formatted "Description." Haunted by the memory of a murdered father, Sam Jack struggles with a failing marriage and a failing career as a thoroughbred trainer. Enter Emily Brandt. Driven to near madness over losing her husband and son in a devastating barn fire, Emily involves Sam in an intricate plot to save her farm that begins the day her lone-surviving broodmare dies giving birth. Enter Black Deuce. And enter jockeys and grooms. Enter mob bookmakers and gamblers. Enter horse owners, race track officials and an extraordinary number of others characters who join to tell the story of a racehorse and a man determined not to give up his dream. In "Black Deuce" Stan D. Jensen uses his intimate knowledge of horse racing to tell an exciting, tension-filled story, a story in which good and evil engage in their eternal duel to the sound of thundering hooves. "I loved this book! The author nailed it! You speak to a racehorse through your hands!" Randy Meier, Chicago Hall of Fame jockey "After over forty years in racing, I can say the author has left no stone unturned, he tells his story dark side and all, and in a meticulously detailed way even the layman can understand. Great writing!" Charles Chiple, Clerk of Scales Hawthorne Racecourse About the Author Stan D. Jensen received his bachelor's degree in history and his master's degree in education from the University of Northern Iowa. He has owned racehorses, and spent the 1980s as a jockey's agent. His short stories have been published in the magazine "The Backstretch." Black Deuce is his third novel. Mr. Jensen lives in Clinton, Iowa, and continues to write. Also by Stan D. Jensen Red Otter Ethan's Peach Tree
Author: Robert B. Parker Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101546506 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
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Spenser is forced by loyalty into an alien world where violence is a way of lie and outsiders enter at a lethal risk. When Spenser's cohort, Hawk, is hired by the tenants of a gang-plagued Boston housing project known as "Double Deuce", he enlists his friend's aid. A friend's girl and her infant daughter have been gunned down. Though the act at first appears to be an accidental drive-by shooting, it soon becomes clear that it was premeditated murder. Before they can solve the crime, Spenser and Hawk must take on an adolescent band of hardened urban warriors. As bullets fly and the brutality escalates, Spenser learns more than he ever dreamed about a generation imprisoned in a hell of poverty and hopelessness where muscle is the ticket to survival, and the surest way out is in a body bag. Pulsing with moral complexity, Double Deuce is the kind of no-holds-barred action thriller only Robert B. Parker can create.
Author: George Pelecanos Publisher: Mulholland Books ISBN: 0316479810 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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From the bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer behind HBO's We Own This City: a "gripping, surprisingly soulful" mystery about an ex-offender who must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path (Entertainment Weekly). Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C. that has changed a lot during his time locked up. Once shady storefronts are now trendy beer gardens and flower shops. But what hasn't changed is the hard choice between the temptation of crime and doing what's right. Trying to balance his new job, his love of reading, and the debt he owes to the man who got him released, Michael struggles to figure out his place in this new world before he loses control. Smart and fast-paced, The Man Who Came Uptown brings Washington, D.C. to life in a high-stakes story of tough choices.
Author: Clyde W. Ford Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide ISBN: 0738708097 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 313
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J.J., John Shannon's son, is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly known as Deuce F., who recently converted to Sufism. The musician also happens to be on a terrorist watch list. When al-Salaam is shot dead, John Shannon agrees to investigate.
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822219835 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 124
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THE STORY: A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks' latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foret
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