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The Next Sure Thing (Unabridged) by Richard Wagamese

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The Next Sure Thing (Unabridged)

Author
Richard Wagamese
Narrator
Billy Merasty
Publisher
Bespeak Audio Editions
Publish Date
30 May 2022
Run Time
2 hours 7 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
‘Street’ fiction, Sports fiction
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Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track.Things are looking good for Cree until he discovers Win's connections to the mob and his violent response to anything that doesn't go his way. And when things inevitably go bad, Cree discovers that in life and in gambling there is never really the next sure thing. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

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Author
Richard Wagamese
Narrator
Billy Merasty
Duration
2 hours 7 minutes
Release Date
30 May 2022
ISBN
9781773059754
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Bespeak Audio Editions
Genre
‘Street’ fiction, Sports fiction

Synopsis

Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track.Things are looking good for Cree until he discovers Win's connections to the mob and his violent response to anything that doesn't go his way. And when things inevitably go bad, Cree discovers that in life and in gambling there is never really the next sure thing. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

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