Double Play: A Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780425199633)

"Parker pretty much defies category altogether in this deeply felt and intimately told memory tale, which takes place during the historic baseball season of 1947...Fusing this chapter of sports history with a hard-boiled gangster plot and haunting recollections of his own Boston boyhood, Parker fashions a hugely entertaining fiction."--The New York Times

1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard--because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal.

Author: Robert B. Parker
ISBN-10: 0425199630
ISBN-13: 9780425199633
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2005
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.16w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Paperback Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 12