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Les Hacker doesn't seem to have an enemy in the world other than whoever tried to kill him with a high-powered rifle while he was sitting on a park bench six floors below Willie Black's living room window. Les is the closest thing Willie has had to a father figure in a checkered life of drinking, divorces, and journalism. Now, with Les clinging to life, Willie decides to take a short sabbatical and do a story about his surrogate dad and the last minor-league baseball team Les played on.
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"In Hammett Prize-winner Owen's enjoyable third mystery featuring biracial Richmond, Va., newspaper reporter Willie Black, Willie rushes to the scene of a shooting in Monroe Park…The deliciously flawed Willie must contend with ex-wives and offbeat friends like Awesome Dude, not to mention an adversarial relationship with newspaper management and Richmond police chief L.D. Jones, on his way to righ
Publishers Weekly
"Baseball (and the consequences to players of sowing wild oats) adds a welcome dimension to this series, which is already notable for its strong characterizations, Willie Black prime among them."
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- SeriesWillie Black #3