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Unwritten in the annals of the sporting world is the story of a man with unlimited potential who was denied his rightful place in the lore of golf...It is a story that might never have been told had Charley Hunter not accepted a summer internship at Butler & Yates, a prestigious Atlanta law firm. Bobby Jones, the legendary amateur golfer, had once been a partner at the firm and his old legal files had been severely neglected over the years.

On a quiet autumn afternoon in 1944, nine-year-old Morris Bird III decides to visit a friend who lives on the other side of town. So he grabs the handle of his red wagon and, with his little sister in tow, begins an incredible pilgrimage across Cleveland...and out of childhood forever.

Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player, becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany, New York, political boss' son.

El que ha de ser l’escriptor més gran del món no acaba d’engegar els grans projectes literaris que té. Durant dos mesos d’estiu escriu un dietari divertit i inversemblant per rumiar sobre el seu bloqueig creatiu. A partir de l’observació de les persones del seu entorn, acaba explicant la història real de la nòvia de Bin Laden i el conflicte diplomàtic entre Alemanya, França i Andorra, la relació entre Caterina Howard i Enric VIII, el vincle desconegut entre Heròdot, Ramsès II i Bruce Willis i les angoixes i trifulgues del maharaja de Babalalipur.