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Lord of Misrule
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track . Tommy Hansel has a plan: run four horses, all better than they look on paper, at long odds at Indian Mound Downs, then grab the purse... more...
Match Fixer
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2010; US$ 12.80With match-fixing capturing global attention and allegations of corruption rocking Australian sport, Neil Humphreys' Match Fixer explains how a crime syndicate slips its tentacles around the Beautiful Game. Having been a soccer writer in both Singapore and Australia for more than a decade, Humphreys has covered match-fixing extensively and Match Fixer... more...
Suckerpunch
Medallion Press 2011; US$ 4.99Despite the best efforts of his trainer and mentor, 28-year-old heavyweight mixed martial artist Aaron ?Woodshed?Wallace just can?t move beyond the low-level MMA fight rungs. His criminal past and self-destructive tendencies have proven to be the biggest hurdle he can?t seem to overcome. So when Woodshed is offered a match against the rising heavyweight... more...
The Chase
Pan Macmillan Australia 2011; US$ 23.73They're all doing it... It's not so much a contest between horses, as a race to find the best recipe. When young scientist Jean Campbell is invited help root out drugs in sport, she enters a murky world where power, privilege, money and illicit practices mix easily. It is Australia in the 1940s, the war is over, and Jean and her charismatic boss... more...
GOOOL!
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99Cuando Santiago Muñez llega a Los Angeles de México a la tierna edad de diez años, viaja con sólo una bola de fútbol y una foto deslucida de la Copa Mundial. Cuando un cazatalento de Inglaterra le ofrece la oportunidad de cumplir su sueño eterno de jugar al fútbol, vuela hasta un lejano rincón del mundo a jugarse el todo por el todo. Sin embargo, no... more...
Desert England
Andrews UK 2011; US$ 8.99A terrifying tidal wave was sweeping across Europe, leaving widespread devastation in its wake. But this was no natural phenomenon; this was a wholly manmade weapon of terror, dubbed by the foreign media as the English disease: football hooliganism. In the months leading up to FIFAs decision as to which country would have the prestigious... more...
Foul Lines
Touchstone 2006; Not AvailableFrom two senior Sports Illustrated writers comes an explosive, fast-paced satire that will do for today's NBA what North Dallas Forty did for the NFL a generation ago. Just months from his Yale graduation, street-smart whiz kid Jamal Kelly leaves school to take a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the front office of the Los Angeles Lasers.... more...
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 17.99Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of ?46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons and daughters of members he once knew the dramatic match between the mysterious and charismatic... more...
Blind Your Ponies
Algonquin Books 2011; US$ 14.95Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that. Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects.... more...
The Next Sure Thing
Orca Book Publishers 2011; US$ 4.99A young blues guitar player risks everything when he signs on to pick winning horses at the race track for a violent mobster. more...









