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Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing
at a suburban Chicago track. With the help of furrier-to-the-mob Moe Kellman, Doyle is hired
as publicity director at Monee Park•a struggling racetrack owned by...
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When his cell phone rang, Jack Doyle had just slipped his silver Accord onto the Kennedy Expressway
at Ohio Street and begun his trip to Monee Park, the aged thoroughbred racetrack located some twenty
miles south of Chicago's Loop. The early morning traffic...
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John will be signing Close Call at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, August 23-24.
Click here for details.
Booklist calls Close Call "...a tale of greed and corruption played out in a milieu that McEvoy,
a longtime racetracker, understands as well as any writer in the genre. The author gets the details
right, a rarity in racing fiction, while delivering all the suspense of a photo finish."
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"Riders Down" has won the Ben Franklin Award for Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of 2006.
The Franklin Awards are sponsored by the Independent Publishers Association. McEvoy
previously won a Franklin for best non-fiction crime book, "Great Horse Racing Mysteries,"
in 2001.
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Bernard ("You may call me Bernie") Glockner, at age ninety-eight Chicago's oldest active bookmaker, reached forward
and again cautiously parted the curtains covering the east window of his living room on the condominium building's ninth
floor. He peered down. The street below, lined with dirt-coated snow mounds, was virtually traffic-free, only an occasional taxi
trolling the salted asphalt in search of customers. At 11:48 on this bone-chilling night, the scene below was nearly as quiet as
its aged watcher...
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