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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The sophmore effort in this /Private Investigator is another home !By Ray J. Palen Jr.Released just in time to coincide with the start of another season is the second baseball mystery by author T.T. Monday entitled DOUBLE SWITCH. Monday is the admitted pseudonym of novelist Nick Taylor and he combines his obvious love of baseball with terrific plotting and characters that spring to life on the page.Veteran lefty --- or 'southpaw' --- reliever Johnny Adcock is resigned to the fact that his waning years in the big leagues will be spent as a set-up man. He is a situational typically called on in the latter third of the game to get tough right-handed batters. Adcock pitches for the fictional San Jose Bay Dogs and they are in the middle of a pennant race in the Eastern Division.Outside of the fictional Bay Dogs and their players the majority of the other teams and players are actual major leaguers. This brilliant blending of fiction with reality makes for an especially entertaining novel and readers will find themselves easily believing that the action transpiring in DOUBLE SWITCH really happened.To make extra income on the side, Johnny Adcock works as a private investigator. Most of his work is assisting teammates and other figures from the game of baseball. Typical work for him is standard P.I. fare --- cheating spouses, dirty sports agents, gambling debts, etc. The case he gets involved in this time is something far bigger and considerably more dangerous.Fans of MLB have witnessed the influx of Cuban professional ballplayers escaping their home country for greener pastures and success in the Major Leagues. Current MLB stars like Jose Abreu, Aroldis Chapman and Yasiel Puig instantly come to mind. The fictional ball-player at the center of DOUBLE SWITCH --- Yonel Ruiz --- has more in common with the former Cleveland Indians pitcher Fausto Carmona. After a few highly successful seasons the truth leaked out that Carmona was actually Roberto Hernandez and much older than the birth date on the back of his baseball card.A professional MLB image consultant named Tiff Tate approaches Adcock about looking into the Colorado Rockies young Cuban star, Mr. Ruiz. Adcock reaches out to the current hitting coach of the Rockies --- a disgraced fictionalized former player who was involved in the steroids scandal by the name of Erik Magnusson. Mags shares some concerns about Ruiz but Adcock feels he is not getting the whole story. When Magnusson turns up dead in the Rockies clubhouse, Adcock realizes he was silenced by someone close to the Ruiz case.Adcock's challenge is to stay alive and under the radar --- all the while playing a vital role in the Bay Dogs pennant chase. Who is behind the murder of Mags? Is it the woman who passed herself off as Ruiz's sister but was actually a mule for illegally transported Cuban players nicknamed La Loba? Tiff Tate, the image consultant who is making way too much money assisting MLB players? Or, could there be a double switch going on whereby Yonel Ruiz was not in need of protection but was actually the person everyone should be afraid of?The pages will fly by like a nail-biter play-off game and this novel demands to be read in one sitting. Monday shows intimate knowledge of this great game and the credibility he lends to his characters and the plot-line consistently blur the line between fact and fiction. The result is an outstanding novel that is the perfect way to kick off another MLB season.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Wild and Satisfying Ride through Major League Baseball's UndersideBy Mary B. O'ConnellNothing makes me happier than a well-written book. This is certainly not that unusual in literary fiction; but in detective novels and sports stories this is rare. Double Switch is a baseball story and murder mystery, and it succeeds completely at both. This is primarily because author TT Monday (aka Nick Taylor) is a terrific writer; but also due to the fact that he does his homework. His central character, Johnny Adcock is a late reliever who generally only pitches to one key batter, known in the trade as a "setup man" (the title of the first book in the series), and is therefore left with lots of time on his hands and a bunch of post-adolescent major leaguers with all the problems too much money and celebrity can bring. A clever premise, but really hard to pull- off. The key is knowing baseball and how major leaguers talk and act, no easy trick since the is strictly off- limits to mere mortals. Somehow, Monday has penetrated this world and picked up all the lingo and details to the point you feel as if you're part of the team, in this case the fictional San Jose Bay Dogs. Then there's the murder part, an intricate scheme surrounding the spiriting of Cuban prospects to American shores and on to the diamond. It all works together with the precision of the twelve-cylinder Ferraris favored by sports illuminati; a wild ride through the dark underside of the baseball, coming to a skidding spinning climax that only leaves you hungry for another ride.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Really Excellent Read!By LanceTT Monday is a great writer and both of the Johnny Adcock books are very cool. Fast paced, easy to read and a likeable 'hero'. Besides being very engaging stories, the books have really piqued my interest in baseball. Having only seen the game on TV and growing up out of the US, I always struggled to understand the game and get into it. I thought it was a bit boring. After reading these two books I was intrigued. I watched a few youtube clips, kind of got a feel for it and look forward to watching a few full games in 2016. MLB has a new convert.

Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the . That's where he meets Tiff Tate, the femme-fatale stylist responsible for half the looks in Major League Baseball, from Brian Wilson's beard to Big Papi's gold ropes. Tiff has a problem. Her new client, the rookie phenom Yonel Ruiz, has been threatened by a cartel of smugglers. Adcock is her last best hope. As he embarks on this potentially deadly mission, Adcock tangoes with a mysterious, sexy assassin known only as La Loba. And he still has the playoffs to worry about. ldquo;Mondayrsquo;s Double Switch is a rocket ride of a sports mystery with a wicked curve ball on every smoothly written page. May Johnny Adcockrsquo;s careers as a relief pitcher and sleuth motor on for a very long time."nbsp;-- David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guiltynbsp;"Rollicking good fun for anyone who loves baseball and mysteries, T.T. Monday takes you inside a modern-day baseball clubhouse and imagines a world in which a left-handed bullpen specialist moonlights as a real-world fixer."nbsp;--Molly Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Best Team Money Can Buy"Double Switchnbsp;is a fast-paced, crisply written mystery novel...that balances baseball against underworld vices like sex, drugs, violence, human trafficking mdash; and oh yeah, several dead bodies....Mondayrsquo;s prose is witty and sharp, and he packs a lot into the plot, which moves briskly to a tidy conclusion."--The Tampa Tribune"Monday is at ease in moving among crime, baseball, and romance. The book gains authenticity from its references to real-life figures and situations. And the first-person narrator makes for good company.nbsp;Monday's second effort, followingnbsp;The Setup Mannbsp;(2014), is an enjoyable, easygoing sequel that shows off the author's skill at seamlessly mixing genres."--Kirkus"Monday (a pseudonym for novelist Nick Taylor) knows his baseball well, creates a mystery out of the very real exploitation of Cuban baseball defectors, and hasan ear for dialogue. Good enough that readers who missed the first Adcock mystery (The Setup Man,nbsp;2014) will be eager to up."--Booklist"Monday handles the baseball action flawlessly with this timely look at the influx of Cuban ballplayers and those eager to take advantage of them."--Publishers Weeklynbsp;nbsp;About the AuthorT. T. MONDAYnbsp;is the pseudonym of novelist Nick Taylor, author of The Disagreement and Father Juniacute;perorsquo;s Confessor. Double Switch is his second novel to feature Johnny Adcock, following The Setup Man.

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