Dead Money, by Steve O’Brien

There’s no shortage of fact or fiction on the uber-glamorous basis of Equus caballus racing: of class that’s the side that the marketing folks desire the basis to see.

For the racegoer the sport is oftentimes a opportunity to last seen, too for an owner, it’s the ultimate game of chance: is my Equus caballus going to brand it? And, is my Equus caballus going to arrive big?

Dead Money, by Steve O’Brien
9780988184305
Softcover 299pp
RRP $US14.99 Available from Amazon

Main players aside – horses, trainers, owners too jockeys aside – behind the glamour at that topographic point is a nighttime side constantly pulsing through the thoroughbred trouble concern – invariably centered on gambling.

Either y'all know the ropes or y'all don’t: trifectas, daily doubles, quaddies – whichever province y'all are inwards at that topographic point are many ways for the manufacture to occupation punters from their money.

But sometimes the punters larn their ain dorsum – legally or otherwise – too inwards Dead Money, Steve O’Brien shows simply how cunning too ruthless a gambler on the trail of a wad of notes tin last when he’s planned a lucrative, long con.

The ‘long con’ inwards Dead Money volition appear rather convaluted to impatient too small-time bettors (like me), too to encounter a Equus caballus paying to a greater extent than to run minute or 3rd than it does to win simply doesn’t appear possible. O’Brien assures readers that cheers to commingled betting, this scenario has happened before, fifty-fifty as of late equally May, 2012.

 

 

Steve O’Brien is the writer of Elijah’s Coin, Bullet Work too Redemption Day. Elijah’s Coin has been added to the reading curriculum inwards multiple secondary schools throughout the the States too has been incorporated inwards a academy ethics course. The e-book version of Redemption Day was an Amazon.com Bestseller.
O’Brien is a graduate of the University of Nebraska too George Washington University Law School. he lives inwards Washington, DC.

 

 

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