(hb;
2002: first book in the Billy Nichols series)
From
the inside flap
“It’s
1948, an era when newspapermen were stars─and San Francisco sportswriter Billy
Nichols is no exception. Known as Mr. Boxing throughout the city, he is the
West coast’s answer to Damon Runyon─an insider’s insider who plucks and
polishes his pearlike stories from the nonstop hustle of the city’s nightclubs,
gambling dens, and ringside seats.
“Billy
Nichols is right where he wants to be, until he stumbles onto a shocking crime
scene. Heavyweight boxer Hack Escalante has killed his manager, and for reasons
Billy doesn’t fully understand, he makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to
protect the prizefighter. Soon Billy’s in too deep, caught in a conspiracy of
desire, deceit, and betrayal, and he sets off a chain of events whose
consequences may cost him his beloved career─and his life. . .”
Review
Distance is a vivid, reader-immersive and
distinctly-San Francisco novel that brings together the best pulp elements,
character archetypes with its fast-paced, quick-twist plot and action. It is a
perfect, reader-immersive read, one of my all-time-favorite, set-in-1940s pulp
tales. Followed by Shadow Boxer.
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