One-eyed Jacks
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- May 2006
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143055600
- Publish Date
- May 2006
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
At thirty-five, Tommy Cochrane is a washed-up boxer who missed out on a shot at the title and has hung up his gloves for good after he's diagnosed with an aneurysm. Down on his luck, he and T-Bone Pike, his friend and former sparring partner, head to Toronto on a quest for the $5000 Tommy desperately needs to buy back his grandfather's farm.
Tommy and T-Bone encounter a city full of gamblers and old memories: Fat Ollie, who runs the weekly poker game on Queen Street; Herm Bell, a sharp kid on a run of bad luck; Tony Broad, a small-time hood with big-time ambitions; and Lee Charles, a sharp-witted and cynical torch singer who happens to be Tommy's ex-girlfriend. The five grand ultimately becomes available to a number of these people in a number of waysâ”all at great risk to Tommy and T-Bone.
About the author
Brad Smith, writer born and raised in the hamlet of Canfield, in southern Ontario, a couple of hours from Toronto. After high school, he worked for the signal department of the Canadian National Railway for three years, and then got a chance to work on a rail project in South Africa. Upon returning from Africa, Smith worked all over the place - Alberta, British Columbia, Texas - at a variety of jobs. Farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and so on. He became a carpenter and built custom homes in Canada. He still works as a carpenter when not writing. He now lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. His books have been published by Penguin Canada, Doubleday Canada, Simon & Schuster Canada and his forthcoming novel will be published by At Bay Press.
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