It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal.
- ISBN10 0399151885
- ISBN13 9780399151880
- Publish Date 1 June 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Putnam Adult
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English