
Throwing 7's
Denis Hamill(Author)
Gallery Books (Publisher)
Published on 19. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-1-4767-9717-5 (ISBN)
Description
Abandoned Coast Guard station Empire Island is ground zero for an idea whose time has come: casino gambling in the Big Apple. For Bobby Emmet, the fight over Empire Island gets personal when a young husband and wife mysteriously vanish from their rent-controlled apartment. That's when Bobby starts turning over stones in a town full of millionaires and madmen, call girls and choirboys. What he finds astounds even him. The whole city is gambling crazy, and the big guys want in.
Suddenly Bobby is playing with the heaviest hitters in New York, including the mayor, the state assembly speaker, and two dueling business tycoons: d one who's into floating casinos, one who's into real estate, and both who are into a famous female tennis celebrity. As Bobby tries to figure out who is backstabbing whom and why, he comes upon the heart of the case, one that is connected with New York City's last honest men: a rabbi, a minister, and a priest. No joke. But to find the truth, Bobby will have to enter the one game in town that isn't fixed -- and gamble with his life.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
705 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4767-9717-5 (9781476797175)
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Denis Hamill is the author of ten novels, including two previous novels featuring Bobby Emmet--3 Quarters and Throwing 7's, as well as Fork in the Road, Long Time Gone, Sins of Two Fathers, and his Brooklyn Christmas fable, Empty Stockings. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News, and he has been a columnist for New York magazine, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Boston Herald American.