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A schoolboy fist fight in a dusty drainage ditch on Houston's Near North Side . . .An altercation in a nearby pool hall which would claim one life and come within a whisker of ruining another . . .A power-hungry Mafia figure in New Orleans known as Big Boy . . .An ambush arranged by brothers of the Caddo Nation's Hainai Tribe and the ensuing shootout in a riverbottom swamp near the oldest city in Texas . . .An incredible offshore hideaway where Mexico's biggest drug dealer stashed a rajah's ransom in cocaine . . ."The Four-Minute Ambush" is an interwoven piece of fiction spun around Houston and Nacogdoches' Piney Woods, New Orleans, St. Louis, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and a half-dozen smaller Texas towns. It's an adventure story written for anyone who enjoys a wide-ranging tale with a gold-inlaid rainbow: The quest for boxing's heavyweight championship of the world by garrulous old Kelly Shaw and his protege, the Indian kid Mark Adams.Hollis, John is the author of 'Four-Minute Ambush' with ISBN 9780970605429 and ISBN 0970605420.
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