EBOOK
About
Montreal, 1971.
Jamie left New York to disappear. He isn't a soldier, but is learning to fight a different kind of war.
Jamie finds his battleground in the bruised and brutal world of professional wrestling, a carnival of giants and grifters touring the icy circuits of the North.
His guide is Frenchie St. Rose, an aging "heel" with a roadmap of scars and a flexible relationship with the truth.
Frenchie teaches Jamie the "work"-how to sell pain, how to get heat, and how to protect the business at all costs. But as the miles rack up between Montreal and the Rockies, the line between performance and reality begins to blur. In a world built on lies, Jamie must decide what kind of man he wants to be when the bell rings.
A gritty, tender, and hard-hitting coming-of-age story about the price of admission to a violent fraternity, and a young man finding his true face behind a mask.
Jamie left New York to disappear. He isn't a soldier, but is learning to fight a different kind of war.
Jamie finds his battleground in the bruised and brutal world of professional wrestling, a carnival of giants and grifters touring the icy circuits of the North.
His guide is Frenchie St. Rose, an aging "heel" with a roadmap of scars and a flexible relationship with the truth.
Frenchie teaches Jamie the "work"-how to sell pain, how to get heat, and how to protect the business at all costs. But as the miles rack up between Montreal and the Rockies, the line between performance and reality begins to blur. In a world built on lies, Jamie must decide what kind of man he wants to be when the bell rings.
A gritty, tender, and hard-hitting coming-of-age story about the price of admission to a violent fraternity, and a young man finding his true face behind a mask.