The Plot to Kill Jackie Robinson

Rating:
Summary: Fact and fiction.
Review: Reporter Joe Tinker is a sportswriter, when not drinking, sleeping around, or stumbling into crimes scenes, who can get the job done-when he's ready to get to it. The year is 1947, and Joe's latest assignment is to follow and interview Jackie Robinson in Cuba during baseball practice for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Making history as baseball's first black player is making waves around the world, and with all of the hate mail that Jackie has received, it's Joe that stumbles into a racial plot to have the ballplayer assasinated on the field of the first game. The author has blended history with fiction very well, except that the coincidences that led Joe to the murder in the making was very contrived. Pushing that to the side, it wasn't so much a mystery as it was slightly lopsided action novel with a better view of how hate can manifest itself to take over one's life. Pretty good.

Rating:
Summary: Fact and fiction.
Review: Reporter Joe Tinker is a sportswriter, when not drinking, sleeping around, or stumbling into crimes scenes, who can get the job done-when he's ready to get to it. The year is 1947, and Joe's latest assignment is to follow and interview Jackie Robinson in Cuba during baseball practice for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Making history as baseball's first black player is making waves around the world, and with all of the hate mail that Jackie has received, it's Joe that stumbles into a racial plot to have the ballplayer assasinated on the field of the first game. The author has blended history with fiction very well, except that the coincidences that led Joe to the murder in the making was very contrived. Pushing that to the side, it wasn't so much a mystery as it was slightly lopsided action novel with a better view of how hate can manifest itself to take over one's life. Pretty good.