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HeadlockAdam Berlin

Headlock

2000265 pages
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"Odessa Rose is the kind of guy who gives the term "hair-trigger temper" a whole new meaning. His violent nature has, more than once, produced blood. Dess was a college wrestling star who blew it all just shy of graduation when he lost a match and beat another wrestler to a pulp. Since his inglorious dismissal from college, he's been parking cars for a living in downtown New York.". "It's there that his cousin Gary finds him and lures him away to Las Vegas. Gary has some uncontrollable impulses of his own: hugely overweight, he's a compulsive gambler, playing fast and loose with thousands of…

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  • Other · English · 2000
    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 265 pages · 9781565122666
WrestlersFictionGamblersYoung menGamblingNew York Times reviewedFiction, sportsLas vegas (nev.), fiction