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    Double Play
    Double Play
    Double Play
    Audiobook4 hours

    Double Play

    Written by Robert B. Parker

    Narrated by Robert Forster

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In 1947, Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier—and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard—because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhoenix Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 1, 2006
    ISBN9781597773096
    Double Play
    Author

    Robert B. Parker

    Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.

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    • 5/5
      Memories flooded as I listened to this book; though the reader has a flat tone, mostly devoid of emotion, the book carries itself well in spite of that. Meaningful in the soft exposure of racial tides in those days, and the underlying details of daily life, the love story seems incidental ..
      Sorry when I reached the end.
      Connelly is a superb writer.