Pat Jordan Books In Order

A.K.A. Books In Order

A.K.A. Sheila Doyle (2002)
A.K.A. Sheila Weinstein (2003)

Novels

Black Coach (1971)
After the Sundown (1979)
The Cheat (1984)

Non fiction

The Suitors of Spring (1969)
Broken Patterns (1977)
A Nice Tuesday (1999)
A False Spring (2005)
The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan (2008)

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A.K.A. Sheila Doyle

The action comes fast and rough in this hotly paced crime novel set in steamy South Florida, and the plot is as unpredictable as the striking, sharp witted, and slightly over the hill stage actress at its center. She’s the recently divorced Sheila Mackenzie, nee Ryan, and when she meets the sometime male stripper and full time operator Bobby Squared or Robert Redfeather, as the Cherokee case may be she overnight discovers inside her fortyish self a furiously passionate, daring, and driven Sheila she never knew. Call her Doyle, she soon finds herself rubbing elbows, and more, with Cuban gangsters, neo Na*zi gunrunners, Rastafarian hitmen, Italian drug dealers, and trigger happy rednecks. She also picks up some trigger skills of her own. She needs them, too. Unwittingly she, Bobby, and Bobby s fat, balding, and all business partner in crime, Sol Bilstein, have become entangled in a deadly web of vengeance that could turn the private army of Cuban political exile Juan Jose Medina against them all. The ruthless Medina may never forget a face, but actress Sheila Doyle has many of them and some talents her stage career never tested. Only now Sheila Doyle is playing for keeps and playing for real. And it could be curtains.

A.K.A. Sheila Weinstein

Without looking back, casting a bad marriage and going nowhere stage career behind her, forty something Sheila Mackenzie, nee Ryan, took a lover, discovered crime, embraced danger, and reinvented herself under an alias in a.k.a. Sheila Doyle. Tough, wild, and sexy, she returns for another excursion into a steamy south Florida underworld of Orthodox Jewish hit men and lesbian pimps in this hard boiled, hotly paced sequel. Sheila and Bobby Squared, her devilishly magnetic Cherokee from North Carolina who dances in strip clubs when he’s not running guns or drugs, again hitch up with Bobby’s shady business partner Sol Bilstein, as well as a flamboyantly gay black hairdresser, Sampson de la Plaine a.k.a. Reggie Johnson this time for a heist that very quickly goes bad, deadly, and dangerous. Indeed, the ruthless and menacing Angela Scarpetti also known as Angel Scot or, more familiarly, the White Witch and Neanderthal hit man Billy the Bear prove to be foe enough to transform the recklessly passionate Sheila Doyle into a harder, colder, more formidable Sheila Weinstein.

The Suitors of Spring

First Edition assumed with none stated. DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, NY 1973. Good/Good dust jacket condition. JACKET DRAWING By ROBERT CUNNINGHAM. PHOTOGRAPH By JOAN BINGHAM. ESSAYS AND WRITINGS ABOUT BASEBALL AND BASEBALL PLAYERS. THE BOOK ALSO EXAMINES COACHES, WRITERS, ETC. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, books will ship immediately without email notification to customer it’s on the way, you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100 refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCode 65 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 005326

A Nice Tuesday

In A Nice Tuesday, Pat Jordan chronicles his decision to reclaim the failed potential of his youth. A young baseball pitcher of inordinate promise, Jordan had been one of the Milwaukee Braves first bonus babies. His struggle through the minor leagues and ultimate failure to play in the majors, eloquently chronicled in A False Spring, defined his youth. At fifty six, Jordan realizes that this trivial thing has also defined his life and decides to make a comeback. He whips himself back into playing condition and convinces an independent minor league team, the Waterbury Connecticut Spirit, to let him return to the mound one last time. In this memoir, Jordan lays bare his midlife quest with honesty and humor, making A Nice Tuesday about much more than baseball.

A False Spring

In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first bonus babies for the Milwaukee Braves organization. Jordan’s sojourn through the lower levels of minor league ball takes him through the small towns of America: McCook, Waycross, Davenport, Eau Claire, and Palatka. As the promised land of the majors recedes because of his inconsistency and lack of control, the young man who had previously known only glory and success is forced to face himself.

The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan

A highly entertaining collection of sports journalism from a forty year veteran. For decades, Pat Jordan has been one of the best sports writers in America. This engrossing book compiles twenty six features from throughout his career, among them his most famous magazine pieces and a small selection of previously unpublished gems. Included is an exciting selection of Jordan’s profiles of sports legends such as Wilt Chamberlain, Tom Seaver, Greg Louganis, Venus and Serena Williams each one frank, insightful, and salty as well as an extraordinary sampling of the pieces with which Jordan made his name: those about athletes who are obscure, unsuccessful, or have fallen from grace. Whether writing about the marginal, the famous, or the infamous, Jordan displays a hard boiled, highly literate prose and a capacity to convey how the idiosyncratic mindsets of athletes lead to success or failure. The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan covers a variety of mainstream sports and some less athletic but equally competitive pastimes like poker, pool, and child beauty pageants. A Q&A with Jordan gives intriguing behind the scenes scoops on select stories. Fun, revealing, and very readable, this book represents the best work from a standout in his field. Highlights from The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan:’Trouble in Paradise’: L.A. Dodger all star and presumed future U.S. Senator Steve Garvey takes a hit to his public image from his unsatisfied wife.’Roger Clemens Refuses to Grow Up’: The greatest pitcher of his generation is really just a big baby.’The Outcast’: O. J. Simpson stars as O. J. Simpson and has a thing for Jennifer Love Hewitt.’Of Memory, Death, and the Automobile’: Phil Hill, Renaissance Formula 1 racecar driver, obsesses over his obsessions.’Ren e’s Retreat’: Transsexual tennis pro Ren e Richards reflects on her life on both the women’s and men’s tours.’Duquesne, PA’: In a down and out factory town, high school football provides the only escape.’Is this Man the Future of Poker?’: Poker phenom David Williams beats the odds, but can’t bluff his girlfriend.’The Noble Turtle’: A wannabe actor can’t escape his boxing past. His name? Sylvester Stallone.