John McEvoy

Ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing at a suburban Chicago track in this new thriller by the author of award-winning Riders Down. With the help of furrier-to-the-mob Moe Kellman, Doyle is hired as publicity director at Monee Park, a struggling suburban Chicago track owned by heiress Celia McCann. Celia is fighting to keep the business afloat while...

Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to buy racehorses, one of which, The Badger Express, turns out to be a sensational runner, stallion, and moneymaker. Seven years later, the men become targets of a professional assassin, an ex-Navy Seal and Iraq private...

When a Chicago advertising account representative named Jack Doyle's life goes up in smoke, he accepts a most unusual offer from an acquaintance to fix a horse race. Soon, the FBI is knocking on Jack's door, looking for his help to catch people who are maiming or killing thoroughbred horses for their insurance values. Jack goes undercover at a multimillionaire media mogul's horse farm to uncover the truth behind rumors of horses being killed if they...