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Title: Double Play Condition: New Subtitle: A Thriller Author: Robert B. Parker Format: Paperback Type: Paperback ISBN-10: 0425199630 EAN: 9780425199633 ISBN: 9780425199633 Publisher: Penguin USA Genre: Fiction Topic: Historical Fiction Release Date: 07/06/2005 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 170mm Item Length: 104mm Item Width: 19mm Item Weight: 176g Release Year: 2005 Description: “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. Missing Information?
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