Anthony Venutolo Newark, New Jersey, 1954
Years of fight halls and newsrooms have East Coast sportswriter Nick Moretti looking for a change. When a sloppy hustle goes bad, and Nick takes a bullet in the shoulder, it’s time to go west. Hired by Pinnacle Pictures to write a boxing movie about troubled heavyweight champ Jericho ‘Rattlesnake’ McNeal, Nick joins forces with sexy public relations gal, Dillian Dawson, for a cross-country tour to give an everyman boxer an unlikely shot at the world title – what could go wrong?
From the crackling neon of Hollywood and Sin City, through the steamy Delta, and on to Chi-Town, the glitzy dream becomes a noir nightmare, and newshound Nick Moretti is about to commit a reporter’s greatest sin – becoming a Front Page Palooka ...
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About the author: 'FRONT PAGE PALOOKA' was written by Anthony Venutolo as "Jack Tunney," a unifying pen name for authors who write for the FIGHT CARD series. It was created by writers Mel Odom and Paul Bishop. Other FIGHT CARD scribes include Eric Beetner, David Foster, Kevin Michaels, Heath Lowrance, Wayne D. Dundee, Robert Randisi. Also included in the FIGHT CARD series are two spin-off brands - Fight Card MMA, Fight Card NOW and Fight Card Romance.
The books in the Fight Card series are novelettes, designed to be read in one or two sittings, and are inspired by the fight pulps of the '30s and '40s - such as Fight Stories Magazine - and Robert E. Howard's two-fisted boxing tales featuring Sailor Steve Costigan.
Each of the novellas is short, sharp and packs a punch.
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