A Perfect Shot
Seventh Street Books · Paperback · April 17, 2018
A local basketball star in a small Ohio town tries to remake his life in middle age, but instead must confront a murderer and the prospect of leaving his hometown and giving up everything that once gave his life meaning.
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- Who it’s for
- A hometown hero’s crime story turns on the difficult cost of becoming more than his past.
- Themes
- Identity beyond past achievements, Middle-age reinvention, Community ties and sacrifice
- Genres
- Crime Fiction, Hard-Boiled Mystery, Suspense
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A local basketball star in a small Ohio town tries to remake his life in middle age, but instead must confront a murderer and the prospect of leaving his hometown and giving up everything that once gave his life meaning. Nicholas "Duke" Ducheski is the most important man in the eastern Ohio steel town of Mingo Junction. Nearly two decades after he made the winning shot in the state championship basketball game, he remains much adored and the focal point of community pride.
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Hardly a day passes when someone doesn't want to talk about "the game." Now approaching forty, Duke no longer wants to be defined solely by something he did when he was eighteen. So he decides to parlay his local popularity into a successful restaurant--"Duke's Place." But no sooner does he get his restaurant up and running than disaster strikes. One day, "Little Tony" DeMarco, his brother-in-law and a known mob enforcer, comes into the restaurant and murders Duke's oldest friend. Now Duke faces the hardest decision of his life. DeMarco thinks he's untouchable, but Duke discovers a way to take him down, along with his mob superiors. To do so, however, means leaving Mingo Junction and sacrificing his treasured identity as the town legend. And if he follows through, what will remain of his life?
The Price of Legend
A hometown hero’s crime story turns on the difficult cost of becoming more than his past.
Come here for
- Small-town loyalties tested by a brutal crime
- A hero reckoning with the story his town tells about him
Expect
- Crime and identity bound up in one hard choice
- A hometown legend weighing justice against the life he knows
Where it sits
| Crime Fiction | 73% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 29% |
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Mystery
- Suspense
- Historical Thrillers
- Authors
- Robin Yocum
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Published
- April 17, 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Identity beyond past achievements · Middle-age reinvention · Community ties and sacrifice
- Reading lane
- Historical Mystery