A New Redhead Adventure By Ivan Scott Awaits!
Sam Murdock, a minor league professional baseball player, is not doing so well: he is a good player, but not an exceptional talent, and his physical injuries are not helping. One day, at the end of a challenging match, his coach calls him in his office and delivers the terrible news: he’s being released from his contract. Goodbye and good luck.
It’s hard for Sam – it would be for everyone really. What now? Is there anything left to do? Maybe, maybe not. Only time will tell. Sam takes refuge in Kiawah, South Carolina, his hometown, where he can go back to his High School and coach the baseball team.
What Sam doesn’t know is that there’s been a mysterious man with a brown fedora observing him from afar for quite a while now. When this nameless man finally approaches him and introduces himself as Chris, the story he presents to Sam is incredible to say the least. ‘I am the Patron Saint of Travellers’ he says ‘and I work in the Lost Causes section of Heaven. I am here to help you.’
It definitely sounds like Chris just escaped the closest mental facility for criminally insane people. But it’s not like that. Chris has a sound proposition to make to Sam: ‘I will take you back in time and let you play baseball again. But it will only last for six months. After that you will be back to this exact moment in time in this exact spot, and your life will continue from here.’ While it does sound crazy, Sam has nothing to lose and all to gain from it. If nothing else, he will have a funny anecdote to tell on a night out. What he doesn’t know is that Chris is not joking, and in the blink of an eye, Sam is in Brooklyn, New York, year 1955, the left field rookie player of the Brooklyn Dodgers, his father’s favourite team. His knees are working perfectly, everybody has great expectations around his performance and he is debuting in the Major League in his father’s favourite team at a time when it was still in New York and not yet on Los Angeles.
If it’s a dream, it’s definitely one Sam doesn’t want to wake up from.
To make it even more special, there is a redhead in it. Her name is Brooklynn, like the borough, but with an extra n. She is in charge of team stats, and doubles up as escort for the less fortunate children the Dodgers invite to their stadium.
It’s a meeting written in the stars, but given the contract Sam stipulated with Chris, it might be a meeting destined to end…
Our verdict on ‘A Redhead In Brooklyn’: this is Scotts’s best work yet, as he’s come in leaps and bounds in the space of a few years. This book has everything: the plot (with a couple of twists that will leave your month hanging), the charm, the narrative, the fun, the cliffhanger and the happy ending. It’s a delicate romance that is not heavy on the romantic bit but works perfectly within the story, with lots of irony that makes the narrative light and funny. Overall, a wonderful read that will glue you to the page until the very last word. We highly recommend it.
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