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Les Hacker doesn't seem to have an enemy on the globe - other than whoever tried out to destroy him with a high-powered rifle while he was relaxing on a recreation area bench six flooring below Willie Black's living room windows. Les is the closest thing Willie has already established to a father amount in a checkered life of drinking, divorces, and journalism. He certainly has better qualifications than the other men Willie's mother, Peggy, took in over time. Obviously, as Willie would say, that could only make him a tall midget. Now, with Les clinging to life, Willie makes a decision to take a brief sabbatical and do a storyline about his surrogate father and the previous minor-league baseball team Les enjoyed on: the 1964 Richmond Virginians. There's only 1 problem. As Willie will try to speak to other members of this team, he discovers that they are almost all below ground - almost all of them a long time before their allotted three-score and a decade. The cops already have Les' shooter in jail, a homeless man who hangs out in the recreation area. The shot was fired from his layer pocket, case closed down. Willie's publisher and the police want him to avoid wasting his time - and theirs - and get back on the whip. Willie becomes persuaded, though, that someone, against all reasoning, is killing the whole starting lineup of your long-forgotten minor-league baseball team. And when Willie gets his teeth on the truth, he's a pit bull who won't let anything less than a go to the top induce him to release. With this third Willie Black book, after Hammett Prize-finalist Oregon Hill and The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen brings back his flawed, ink-stained hero, a reporter who appears to do his best work when he's chasing a story no one else wants, who is able to be his own worst enemy and the underdog's best ally.
