The Code
A Fiction, Sports, Hockey book. I enjoyed this book a lot. Its got a real sense of...
Brad Shade has been just about everywhere hockey is played. He has ridden the buses in the minors, shared dressing rooms with the legends of the game, closed bars with guys destined for the Hall of Fame, and dropped the gloves with journeymen like himself who’ll never get near it. Now that he’s retired after fourteen years of bouncing around the league, he’s living out of a suitcase and scouting for Los Angeles, where someone in management owes him a favour from his playing days.But when the brutally murdered body of coaching legend Red Hanratty turns up in the parking lot after an old-timers charity game,...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780670066902 / 0
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I enjoyed this book a lot. Its got a real sense of insider information, like a sports journalist finally getting a chance to dish the dirt on all the things hes seen happen. What really worked for me were the complex mystery, the locker room details, and the Canadian setting. What didnt work were the huge, confusing cast of characters;... Won a copy from the Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.Good mystery novel. I am not a huge sports fan, but I do enjoy the occasional hockey game and I love mysteries. This book taught me some things about hockey and the mystery portion was well done. I would likely read other mystery novels by this author. This sporty, dudely tale features ex-pro hockey jock Brad Shade, a ham and egger puckster with too few prospects, too much bitterness, and too many issues, though still reasonably intelligent. He has a huge bitter streak: hes divorced and his retirement nest egg was scrambled by some bean counting horror (grrrr). Without many shekels...
