The Next Sure Thing

The Next Sure Thing
ISBN-10
1554699029
ISBN-13
9781554699025
Category
Fiction
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
2011-10-01
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Author
Richard Wagamese

Description

Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track. Things are looking good for Cree until he discovers Win's connections to the mob and his violent response to anything that doesn't go his way. And when things inevitably go bad, Cree discovers that in life and in gambling there is never really the next sure thing.

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