Close call
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433247545 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433247542 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 8:42:28. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Tom Weiner. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 125147 KB; MP3 file size: 245409 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Horse racing -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Mystery fiction. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Jack Doyle, ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing when he is hired as publicity director for Monee Park, a struggling suburban Chicago track owned by heiress Celia McCann. McCann is determined to maintain the business, which was inherited from a beloved uncle. She finds various exploits to keep the business afloat while awaiting passage of a law allowing the introduction of lucrative video slot machines at Monee Park. But meanwhile, McCann is under pressure from the other heir, her cousin, Niall Hanratty, who wants to close the track and sell the valuable property to real-estate developers. Jack Doyle is called on to help Celia's cause, again a somewhat reluctant knight-errant, who rises to the occasion when needed.