The Glory and The Game

<p>It seems baseball and murder keep intersecting in the professional lives of NYPD Detective Gordon Hodges and his partner Carl Furillo.</p><p>Last time around it was Boston Red Sox star centerfielder Willie Starmaker. This time it's the Los Angeles Dodgers' rookie sensation Colt Alexander a case that's keeping the detectives up at night.</p><p>People close to young Alexander's seemingly heroic military past keep turning up dead murdered in grisly and torturous ways.</p><p>The chase to find the killer before he completes his grisly vendetta will take Hodges Furillo and other allies on a chase from the East Coast to the West Coast and into the depths of depravity.</p><p>The question is not only can they catch the murderer but can they catch him in time? Meanwhile the bodies keep piling up ...</p><p><strong>(About the Author)</strong></p><p>A former Marine Jim Bauckham has retired from IT management and recently retired from playing competitive baseball as a pitcher. Raised in New Jersey he now lives with his wife of 38 years in Raleigh North Carolina. They have three grown children one of whom is a captain in the Marines.</p>