Onetime amateur boxer Jack Doyle an irreverent and rebellious advertisingaccount representative goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk and his jo... » 

Onetime amateur boxer Jack Doyle an irreverent and rebellious advertisingaccount representative goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk and his job both gone. A twotime loser at the marriage game as wellDoyle usually ultraconfident fishes himself out of a bottle to take stockrealizing with a thumping finality that Life sure as hell did have hisnumber and was crunching it.At loose ends Doyle accepts a most unusual offer from an acquaintance MoeKellman furrier to the Mob to fix a horse race. The context of making thedeal a Cubs game at storied Wrigley Field sets the tone for the drama thatfollows. Thus begins a chain of events that will lead the FBI to Doyles doorwhere they coopt him into a quest after people who are maiming or killingthoroughbred horses for their insurance values. Their number one target is aloathsome media mogul who cant bear to lose...at anything.Built upon recent factual events spiced with satire and peppered throughoutwith engaging loonies Blind Switch is a noteworthy first novel with a heroforced to ask in its ultimate line Where have I gone right? «