Balling the Jack

Balling the Jack
Frank Baldwin

Sharp, funny, romantic tale of love and gambling in slacker-generation New York.Tom Reasons is a young man who takes his pay cheque every week and bets it all on a Friday night ball game. Then it’s either champagne or pot-noodles for a week. He’s lost his girl because he couldn’t commit to her and now he regrets it. He hangs out at an Irish bar and plays on the darts team with his pals. One drunken night, he challenges the captain of the meanest, dirtiest team in the league to a money-match. And then doubles the bet. Now the race is on for Tom to come up with the $40,000 stake and get his team to win without telling them how much pressure they are really under! Great suspense, lots of laughs, true romance.

BALLING THE JACK

FRANK BALDWIN

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First published in the USA by Simon & Schuster 1997

Published in paperback by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1997

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Source ISBN: 9780006499770

Ebook Edition © MAY 2016 ISBN: 9780008191474

Version: 2016-05-09

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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

—Ernest Nomingway, The Sun Also Rises

Balling the Jack (slang)–To risk everything on one attempt or effort.

CONTENTS

Cover (#ubafe3f4d-1720-5963-85b5-c291d44db557)

Title Page (#u97d19015-c3eb-5ec5-8f96-cbecee9510f5)

Copyright (#ulink_bc01773a-401b-52dc-a49d-f012fe14131f)

Dedication (#ulink_0ae9aeed-252b-538a-833f-1fa16699ca8b)

Epigraph (#ulink_c703ff45-5538-561f-bdea-2ae44f9eeb20)

Chapter One (#ulink_ae9d1b25-1b34-542a-b927-fadf05ed46cf)

Chapter Two (#ulink_1dab1d15-0710-5b3f-800f-f25240683352)

Chapter Three (#ulink_c82ecf3d-aa45-5e54-be84-5964dc9a5ec6)

Chapter Four (#ulink_e4e2d7b1-cea5-5014-9c74-3810b0207b04)

Chapter Five (#ulink_b5d55ba1-37d8-544c-adc8-ee976b03e255)

Chapter Six (#ulink_769240da-221a-5f90-9ceb-d36c7db8bf3b)

Chapter Seven (#ulink_9a6bc88d-22f5-51db-9d59-bb88e616066a)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)