The bloodstone papers
By: Glen Duncan.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780061239663
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; India -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: His dreams of attaining Olympic glory shattered, mixed-heritage Catholic boxer Ross Monroe is exiled from his home in 1940s India and finds himself consumed by an obsession that sets in motion events that impact the investigation of an English writer into his father's past.
Table of contents: title: Nowadays; title: The boy and the ring; title: headlines; title: The girl and the gold; title: Papers; title: The valuation; title: Personals; title: The mother country; title: Lies; title: The deal with God; title: Witnesses; title: The tryst with destiny; title: Suspects; title: The silk train; title: revisions; title: The sucker punch; title: Options.