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Jack Of Diamonds

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Jack Of Diamonds

Set across three continents,Â Jack of DiamondsÂ is a spellbinding story of chance, music, corruption and love.Â

During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game. Jack makes music as a way of escaping his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano.

Jack is a virtuoso and hits the road, enchanting audiences in Canada, wartime Europe and Las Vegas, where he is caught up in the world of elite poker and falls under the spell of his boss, the enigmaticÂ Bridgett Fuller. Vegas is a hard town ruled by the Mafia, but Jack prospers, until his luck turns bad and he falls foul of the Mob. Forced to run for his life from Vegas, he must also leave the woman he adores. His adventuring takes him to the far reaches of Africa, to a rare and valuable bird that may seal his fate â€“ and to the love of a very different woman.

Bryce Courtenay writes in a moving Epilogue that Jack of Diamonds will be his last novel.

If poker was an addiction then music was an overwhelming obsession; one could never replace the other in my life.

Country	USA
Author	Bryce Courtenay
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780857960306
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	e-penguin
Manufacturer	e-penguin
NumberOfPages	732
PublicationDate	2012-11-12
Publisher	e-penguin
ReleaseDate	2012-11-12
Studio	e-penguin

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