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Blockade Billy by King, Stephen; Orbik, Glen; McVey, Alex is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Blockade Billy about?

From Publishers Weekly A quirky baseball player with a past shrouded in secrecy is the tragic hero of this macabre tale from the dark side of the all-American sport. In the voice of George Granny Grantham, retired third-base coach of the New Jersey Titans, King (_Under the Dome_) recalls the spring of 1957, when Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from the Titans' Iowa farm system, helped to boost the team out of the basement and add some excitement to the national pastime. Billy hits with such power and guards the plate with such determination (hence his eponymous nickname) that teammates are willing to forgive such eccentricities as his frequently addressing himself in the third person, or bloodying runners who collide with him. Of course, these kinks are clues to a shocking pathology that King coaxes out in a narrative steeped so perfectly in the argot of the game and the behavior of its players and fans that readers will willingly suspend their disbelief. As King's fiction goes, this suspenseful short is a deftly executed suicide squeeze, with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home. (May) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed El

Who reads Blockade Billy?

Author

King, Stephen; Orbik, Glen; McVey, Alex

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780615365985

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

3.41 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14