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October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0670066907
EAN: 9780670066902
Kindle: B0099D4CPI
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Brad Shade has been just about everywhere hockey is played.
He has ridden the buses in the minors, shared dressing rooms
with the legends of the game, closed bars with guys destined
for the Hall of Fame, and dropped the gloves with journeymen
like himself who’ll never get near it. Now that he’s retired
after fourteen years of bouncing around the league, he’s
living out of a suitcase and scouting for Los Angeles, where
someone in management owes him a favour from his playing days. But when the brutally murdered body of coaching legend Red
Hanratty turns up in the parking lot after an old-timers
charity game, Shade’s job of scouting the local phenomenon
starts to overlap with investigating the killing of the
kid’s grizzled old coach. From small-town rinks to the draft tables in the big league,
G.B. Joyce introduces us to a character with a
self-deprecating sense of humour and an oversized will to
win—and weaves a story out of strands of resentment, greed,
and fear that span generations and build to a surprising,
thrilling conclusion.
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