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Robert B. Parker fans have been quick to embrace each addition to his remarkable canon, from the legendary Spenser series to the novels featuring Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall. And his occasional forays into the past-Gunman's Rhapsody, a fresh take on Wyatt Earp, and Poodle Springs, based on a Raymond Chandler story-have dazzled critics and confirmed his place among the greatest writers of this century. With Double Play, he presents us with a book he was literally born to write.
It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers-and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal.
A brilliant novel about a very real man, Double Play is a triumph: ingeniously crafted, rich with period detail, and re-sounding with the themes familiar to Parker's readers-honor, duty, responsibility, and redemption.
Genre: Mystery
It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers-and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal.
A brilliant novel about a very real man, Double Play is a triumph: ingeniously crafted, rich with period detail, and re-sounding with the themes familiar to Parker's readers-honor, duty, responsibility, and redemption.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
May 2008 : USA Library Binding
June 2005 : USA Hardback
January 2005 : UK Hardback
July 2004 : USA Hardback
May 2004 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
April 2015 : UK Paperback
November 2005 : UK Paperback
June 2005 : USA Mass Market Paperback
Audio Editions
2008 : USA Audio CD

Title: Double Play - on Playaway
Author(s): Robert B Parker
ISBN: 1-60514-260-3 / 978-1-60514-260-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Playaway
Availability: Amazon
January 2006 : USA Audio CD
April 2004 : USA Audio edition
April 2004 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Double Play: A Novel
Author(s): Robert B Parker
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Availability: Amazon AU
April 2004 : USA Audio Cassette
April 2004 : USA Audio CD
Kindle Editions
March 2014 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
June 2005 : USA, Canada Kindle edition