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Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to buy race horses, one of which, The Badger Express, turns out to be a sensational runner, stallion, and money maker. Seven years later, the men become targets of a professional assassin, an ex-Navy SEAL and Iraq private security guard named Orth. They begin dying, one by one. Jack Doyle returns to the race track, volunteering to aid FBI agents in a search for criminals fixing races. Doyle then becomes involved in protecting Rene Rison, the favored daughter of the Significant Seven's leader Arnie Rison. Jack Doyle, as always irreverent, observant, opinionated, sometimes mistaken but always persistent, eventually manages to find answers to the questions of who is fixing the races and who is having members of the Significant Seven killed off.
[Read by Tom Weiner]
Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to buy race horses, one of which, The Badger Express, turns out to be a sensational runner, stallion, and money maker. Seven years later, the men become targets of a professional assassin, an ex-Navy SEAL and Iraq private security guard named Orth. They begin dying, one by one. Jack Doyle returns to the race track, volunteering to aid FBI agents in a search for criminals fixing races. Doyle then becomes involved in protecting Rene Rison, the favored daughter of the Significant Seven's leader Arnie Rison. Jack Doyle, as always irreverent, observant, opinionated, sometimes mistaken but always persistent, eventually manages to find answers to the questions of who is fixing the races and who is having members of the Significant Seven killed off.
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About the Author:
JOHN MCEVOY is the author of several nonfiction books on thoroughbred horse racing, including the award-winning Great Horse Racing Mysteries. A former college English professor, newspaper reporter, Midwest editor, and senior correspondent for Daily Racing Form, he and his wife Judy live in Evanston, Illinois.
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''McEvoy is a racing expert whose knowledge permeates the pages, and, like any good tout, he's full of amusing stories about horses, bettors, and trackmen.'' --Publishers Weekly
''McEvoy's . . . horseracing thriller starring Jack Doyle again nails the track milieu . . . Doyle, working with the FBI to identify who is 'sponging' horses (inserting sponges into Thoroughbreds nostrils to impede breathing), stumbles into an even bigger case: the systematic murder of the seven co-owners of a champion horse now earning millions at stud. Both the sponger and the person behind the murders are apparent virtually from their first appearances, but horseracing fans will still find much to enjoy. McEvoy, a former Daily Racing Form columnist, knows the racetrack intimately, and his insider details will keep racing fans turning pages.'' --Book list
''Mystery fans, especially those who enjoy the Sport of Kings, will appreciate this entry and the series as John McEvoy enhances the whodunit with horse racing tales.'' --Midwest Book Reviews
''McEvoy's . . . horseracing thriller starring Jack Doyle again nails the track milieu . . . Doyle, working with the FBI to identify who is 'sponging' horses (inserting sponges into Thoroughbreds nostrils to impede breathing), stumbles into an even bigger case: the systematic murder of the seven co-owners of a champion horse now earning millions at stud. Both the sponger and the person behind the murders are apparent virtually from their first appearances, but horseracing fans will still find much to enjoy. McEvoy, a former Daily Racing Form columnist, knows the racetrack intimately, and his insider details will keep racing fans turning pages.'' --Book list
''Mystery fans, especially those who enjoy the Sport of Kings, will appreciate this entry and the series as John McEvoy enhances the whodunit with horse racing tales.'' --Midwest Book Reviews
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1441732276
- ISBN 13 9781441732279
- BindingMP3 CD
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