The Grand Master of mystery offers a richly textured, change-of-pace historical novel set in 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, as seen through the eyes of Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, who is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey as Robinson's bodyguard. 125,000 first printing.
BASEBALL PLAYERS_FICTIONNEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTIONFICTION_SPORTSAFRICAN AMERICANS_FICTIONFICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERALFICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL
RELEASED2004
PUBLISHERPutnam
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
Double Play
by Robert B. Parker
The Grand Master of mystery offers a richly textured, change-of-pace historical novel set in 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, as seen through the eyes of Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, who is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey as Robinson's bodyguard. 125,000 first printing.
BASEBALL PLAYERS_FICTIONNEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTIONFICTION_SPORTSAFRICAN AMERICANS_FICTIONFICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERALFICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL