Blind Switch
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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 "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?"
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McEvoy, J. (2011). Blind Switch. [United States], Sourcebooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)McEvoy, John. 2011. Blind Switch. [United States], Sourcebooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)McEvoy, John, Blind Switch. [United States], Sourcebooks, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)McEvoy, John. Blind Switch. [United States], Sourcebooks, 2011.
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