| Author: | Milo Samardzija | ISBN: | 9781626523166 |
| Publisher: | Publish Green | Publication: | July 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Milo Samardzija |
| ISBN: | 9781626523166 |
| Publisher: | Publish Green |
| Publication: | July 31, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Schoolboy is the story of Joe "Schoolboy" Mackey, a brilliant young poker player, his unconventional love affair with an accomplished older woman, and his life-long connection to a brutal crime family. The novel spans 25 years, from the days when high-stakes poker was an illegal and often dangererous pastime, to the present, when poker has achieved world-wide popularity. It is a violent, sexy, and sometime darkly humorous story that features gangland intrigue, obsessive love, tragic death, a harrowing two-year exile in a tijuana hellhole, revenge and redemption. From his meteoric rise to the top of the poker world to his equally stunning fall from grace, the Schoolboy learns the hardest lesson of all: Some hands should never be played.
Schoolboy is the story of Joe "Schoolboy" Mackey, a brilliant young poker player, his unconventional love affair with an accomplished older woman, and his life-long connection to a brutal crime family. The novel spans 25 years, from the days when high-stakes poker was an illegal and often dangererous pastime, to the present, when poker has achieved world-wide popularity. It is a violent, sexy, and sometime darkly humorous story that features gangland intrigue, obsessive love, tragic death, a harrowing two-year exile in a tijuana hellhole, revenge and redemption. From his meteoric rise to the top of the poker world to his equally stunning fall from grace, the Schoolboy learns the hardest lesson of all: Some hands should never be played.
