Bad blood

Three men with big ambitions grapple in a near-future world where baseball could get bloody. Felix Martinez started out running drugs in Petare, a down-and-out barrio of Caracas, Venezuela. Now, even with a murky, murderous past, he aspires to be a major league baseball agent. Errol Boghan is a second baseman who?s spent most of his career in the minors but is finally in the big leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays, though perhaps not for long. Enter Santi del Oriente, a superstar with a shady background who?s just been acquired by the Jays. All three men grapple in a near-future world where past and present merge, betrayal and love are intertwined, and dark secrets inevitably rise to the surface. About the Author Jack Drury is a world traveller whose articles have been published in the National Post, the Toronto Star, and Now magazine. He lives in Toronto and over a number of summers has visited twenty-seven major league baseball parks.