title: Double Switch: A Novel
author:  T. T. Monday 
description: <b>Mondays <i>Double Switch</i> is a rocket ride of a sports mystery with a wicked curve ball on every smoothly written page. May Johnny Adcocks careers as a relief pitcher and sleuth motor on for a very long time."</b><br /><b>--David Baldacci, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Guilty</i></b><br /><br />"Rollicking good fun for anyone who loves baseball and mysteries, T.T. Monday takes you inside a modern-day baseball clubhouse and imagines a world in which a left-handed bullpen specialist moonlights as a real-world fixer."<br />--Molly Knight, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Best Team Money Can Buy</i><br /><br /><i>"Double Switch</i>is a fast-paced, crisply written mystery novel...that balances baseball against underworld vices like sex, drugs, violence, human trafficking  and oh yeah, several dead bodies....Mondays prose is witty and sharp, and he packs a lot into the plot, which moves briskly to a tidy conclusion."<br /><i>--The Tampa Tribune</i><br /><br />"Monday is at ease in moving among crime, baseball, and romance. The book gains authenticity from its references to real-life figures and situations. And the first-person narrator makes for good company.Monday's second effort, following<i>The Setup Man</i>(2014), is an enjoyable, easygoing sequel that shows off the author's skill at seamlessly mixing <i>genres."<br />--Kirkus<br /><br /></i>"Monday (a pseudonym for novelist Nick Taylor) knows his baseball well, creates a mystery out of the very real exploitation of Cuban baseball defectors, and hasan ear for dialogue. Good enough that readers who missed the first Adcock mystery (<i>The Setup Man,</i>2014) will be eager to catch up."<br />--<i>Booklist</i><br /><br />"Monday handles the baseball action flawlessly with this timely look at the influx of Cuban ballplayers and those eager to take advantage of them."<br /><i>--Publishers Weekly</i><i></i>
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  **DOUBLE DOWN**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This novel is a work of fiction. All of the events, characters, names, and
  places depicted in this novel are entirely fictitious or are used
  fictitiously. No representation that any statement made in this novel is true
  or that any incident depicted in this novel actually occurred is intended or
  should be inferred by the reader.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1991, 2014 Tom Kakonis
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 1941298125
  
  
  ISBN-13: 9781941298121
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Brash Books, LLC
  
  
  12120 State Line, #253
  
  
  Leawood, Kansas 66209
  
  
  
  
  
  [www.brash-books.com](http://mysterythrillerbooks.com/)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ALSO BY TOM KAKONIS
  
  
  
  
  
  Treasure Coast
  
  
  Criss Cross
  
  
  Flawless
  
  
  Blind Spot
  
  
  
  
  
  The Waverly Series
  
  
  
  
  
  Michigan Roll
  
  
  Double Down
  
  
  Shadow Counter
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Judith,
  
  
  without whom it wouldn’t get done.
  
  
  Also for Jeff Gerecke,
  
  
  for similar reasons.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  After looking at his hole cards,
  
  
  a player may elect to double his bet
  
  
  a