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    The Best Man
    The Best Man
    The Best Man
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    The Best Man

    By Patrick O'Sullivan

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    The Best Man

     

    Ten years Mary Breen has been trying to decide whom to wed, and ten years failing.

     

    That's why, on the weekend before the All-Ireland Road Bowling Championship, two strong men will square off in a winner-take-all shootout.

     

    Davis Tone and Barry Murphy, warriors equally matched, waging a final battle in a cross-border rivalry that's been simmering for the better part of a decade.

     

    A battle for the hand of Mary Breen, the woman each man professes to love.

     

    The outcome is anything but certain, and Mary herself, never a gambler before, has only one wish.

     

    May the best man win.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDunkerron Press
    Release dateOct 12, 2020
    ISBN9781625600134
    The Best Man
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    Patrick O'Sullivan

    PATRICK O'SULLIVAN was the OHL and CHL rookie of the year in 2002 and the AHL rookie of the year in 2005. He remains the all-time leader in games, goals, assists and points for the Mississauga/Niagara franchise in the OHL. He played 334 games over eight seasons with the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Carolina Hurricanes, Minnesota Wild and Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL. He played in three World Junior Championships and is all-time second in games played for the USA in tournament history. He scored the gold-medal winning goal for the United States team at the world junior championships in 2004, the first gold medal in the team's history. The 30-year-old now lives in southwest Florida with his wife and two sons. GARE JOYCE is a senior writer for Sportsnet Magazine. A former writer for ESPN: The Magazine and The Globe and Mail, Joyce has won four Canadian national magazine awards and been a finalist 21 times. He is author of seven books of sports non-fiction, including When the Lights Went Out, Future Greats and Heartbreaks and The Devil and Bobby Hull. Under the nom de plume G.B. Joyce, he has written two mystery novels, The Code and The Black Ace.

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