Strike Zone

by Richard Curtis

When baseball's biggest rising star, Willie Hesketh, declares he is going to cross the picket line to play the game he loves, someone doesn't agree. Before Willie even has a chance to arrive at the battle, four thugs with bats waylay him. Now Willie is laid up in the hospital with a slim chance of walking again. All he knows is that he believes he put out the eye of one of the goons and he begs Bolt to get revenge. It is a twisty road through the maze of managers, union leaders and players, but sports agent Bolt has a map...one that leads straight to a one-eyed man.

191 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE

Graduate of Harrow School and subsequently Christ Church, University of Oxford. Academy Award nominee and recipient of Emmy and BAFTA awards for screenwriting. He is also a director and producer. In 2007, he became a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third entry in The Agent series covers baseball. During a strike, a young ballplayer is beaten, and nearly killed by men with baseball bats. Dave Bolt is appointed by the commissioner to find out who did it and why. At the same time, he gets the lead on a baseball phenom who is in jail. It turns out he was framed by the brother of a girl he maybe impregnated.

Bolt has his hands full, but still manages to find the time to hit the sack with a bevy of babes. Not bad 70's stuff.