Double Play

Description

It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball's colour barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of WWII, is hired by a Dodgers manager to guard Robinson. While he shadows the baseball hero he must also face some truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations could prove fatal.

Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.

Parker fashions a hugely entertaining fiction that also serves as a blueprint for the themes that preoccupy him as a writer and the code of values that sustains his work -- Marilyn Stasio * New York Times * Double Play is a quick and accessible read, it is also an engaging one -- Edward Smith * The Telegraph * a masterful recreation of a turbulent era that's not only a great and gripping crime novel but also one of the most evocative baseball novels ever written * Publishers Weekly * fans will not be disappointed with DOUBLE PLAY, it is worth reading for its quiet yet forthright historical value alone -- Joe Hartlaub * bookreporter.com * The talk is electric, the pacing breakneck, the cast colorful and empathic.... Parker flat out nails it here * Kirkus Reviews *