"Parker pretty much defies category altogether in this deeply felt and intimately told memory tale, which takes place during the historic baseball season of 1947. . . Fusing this chapter of sports history with a hard-boiled gangster plot and haunting recollections of his own Boston boyhood, Parker fashions a hugely entertaining fiction."-The New York Times
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.
