The Comeback

Duffy is back!After almost a decade, our social working, pro boxing, Schlitz drinking, Basset Hound loving, bleeding heart tough guy has no idea what he's in store for.His world literally blows up with a new gig, a career shift, another hound, and though he's still spending most of the time in AJ's, now it is from the other side of the bar.Duffy's buddy and the owner of his drinking haunt dies suddenly, and before he knows it, Duffy is in the tavern business. AJ's cryptic note left to Duffy asks him to look into his demise, and when a thick-necked goon comes around to scare Duff off, well, we know our man decides to go all in.Now, Duffy is up against the Chicago mob, a dirty drug business preying on the addicted, and his hometown's worst street gang.It's a good thing Al the Basset Hound is on his side Tom Schreck has written on topics as broad as boxing, business, pets, fitness, psychology, relationships, golf, diners, drive-ins and prison for publications that include The Business Review, Fightnews.com, Westchester Magazine, American Health and Fitness, Professional Counselor and Catfancy, among others.A former director of an inner city drug clinic and now a world championship boxing official, Schreck has combined his varied experience and created his first novel. On the Ropes is the story of a drug counseling professional fighter, his Black Muslim basset hound, and their pursuit to save a kidnapped little girl while foiling a terrorist plot to blow up Yankee Stadium.Tom Schreck graduated from The University of Notre Dame and has a master's degree in Psychology. He lives in Albany, New York.