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Riders Down
Author: John McEvoy
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/04/2012
Category: Fiction - Mystery & Detective
Synopsis
No one really notices that a certain horse race might have been fixed until Matt OConnor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellmans question for Matt: Was the death of ninety-two-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicagos oldest active bookie, suicide or murder? Glockner was Kellmans late uncle, and Kellman, a man familiar with the Chicago mob, wants Matt to check it out. Matt quickly comes to believe that the fate of the bookmaker is tied to a series of races whose outcomes have been manipulated. His quest is aided by horse trainer Maggie Collins and Dave Zimmer, a professional gambler known as the Fount for his reputation as an encyclopedic source of information. Eventually, going as far afield as Las Vegas, they focus their sights on a brilliant sociopath. But why would this psycho have plotted a race-fixing scheme?
Spiced with lively language from the world of horse racing,Riders Downoffers striking insights into that world and the possibilities of its corruption.