Left Field

ISBN: 1475049234

Author: Goodwin, Jim

Condition: New

Product Description This story of the Braun Brothers is one of forced interdependence in spite of sibling rivalry. The ordered life of Joseph, the younger brother, falls apart after a man gets killed as the result of a barroom brawl. Joseph's older brother Harry goes to jail and Joseph starts to work with deprived teens at a non-profit. When Harry is released, Joseph has to re-invent himself again and is now forced to care for his brother who has suffered brain damage during his incarceration. Together they build a landscape maintenance business and a real estate business. Now wealthy, Harry retires and Joseph tries politics. Corruption beckons and an old underworld contact of Harry's surfaces and provides their final challenge. About the Author After a successful academic career in science at Bristol University in the UK, James (Jim) Goodwin moved to the US in 1999 where he authored two successful science textbooks that are now available in second editions. In 2010, he devoted himself to writing novels. "Hazel Johnson" a Boston love story, was the first to be published. "A Silk Robe," a story set in the Pacific Northwest about a young man struggling to overcome a family tragedy is his second, and he is working on two more. His blog can be found at jimgoodwinbooks.com. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.