



I'd almost been middleweight champion of the world. But then some doctors told me my heart was no good - from now on everything must be slow and easy; no emotion. Keep your heart locked up. Smile at everything. Play poker all your life. That was just how I happened to go wrong...
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I'd almost been middleweight champion of the world. But then some doctors told me my heart was no good - from now on everything must be slow and easy; no emotion. Keep your heart locked up. Smile at everything. Play poker all your life. That was just how I happened to go wrong...







A bruised fist meets the green baize of a poker table, and the dust of the American West settles on a man who can never quite outrun his own legend. In the shadowed corners of 1930s America, where fortunes are won with knuckles or cards and lost just as swiftly, a former boxing...