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Blind Switch Paperback - 2004

by John McEvoy

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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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Jack Doyle became a fixer of horse races shortly after his fortieth birthday when he realized, with a thumping finality, that Life sure as hell did have his Number and was crunching it.

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  • Title Blind Switch
  • Author John McEvoy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Large type / lar
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Poisoned Pen Press
  • Publication date October 15, 2004
  • Large Print Yes
  • Features Large Print
  • ISBN 9781590581230 / 1590581237
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 6.1 x 0.97 in (22.66 x 15.49 x 2.46 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

John McEvoy, former Midwest editor and senior correspondent for Daily Racing Form, is the author of five previously published non-fiction books on thoroughbred horse racing, including the award-winning Great Horse Racing Mysteries. He has also published a book of poetry. This is his first novel. McEvoy and his wife Judy live in Evanston, IL.

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