A scourge of vipers
To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports leagues, and others who have a lot to lose--or gain--if gambling is made legal flood the s...
| Main Author: | DeSilva, Bruce (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tom Doherty Associates LLC,
2015.
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: |
To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports leagues, and others who have a lot to lose--or gain--if gambling is made legal flood the state with money to buy the votes of state legislators. Liam Mulligan, investigative reporter for The Providence Dispatch, wants to investigate, but his bottom-feeding corporate bosses at the dying newspaper have no interest in serious reporting. So Mulligan goes rogue, digging into the story on his own time. When a powerful state legislator turns up dead, an out-of-state bag man gets shot, and his cash-stuffed briefcase goes missing, Mulligan finds himself the target of shadowy forces who seek to derail his investigation by destroying his career, his reputation, and perhaps even his life. |
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| Physical Description: |
315 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
0765374315 9780765374318 |
| Author Notes: |
BRUCE DeSILVA spent forty-one years as a journalist before writing Rogue Island , his first novel, which won the 2011 Edgar and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel. |