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Is Dave Bolden lucky? Someone is willing to bet Dave’s life that he is.
“A poignant rumination on the nature of family, fortune, and fate…”
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Dave Bolden’s life feels like it’s on repeat. He works his eight hours at a boutique accounting firm, goes home, gets drunk and wakes up the next day to go back to work with a hangover. But his life changes when an eighteen-wheel truck crashes through the front windows of his workplace, killing everyone except him.
Shortly after the accident, he is approached by an eccentric businessman, Mr. Thorrin, who interprets Dave’s survival as luck and sets out to exploit what he perceives as a gift. Mr. Thorrin wants Dave to participate in gambling, stock manipulation and extreme betting, all based on this belief. Complicating Dave’s life further is his strained relationship with his father, a lifelong compulsive gambler. The more he interacts with his father, the more he realizes a series of events from his childhood support the theory that he is unusually lucky.
What transpires is a series of extreme tests of luck, orchestrated by the very mysterious Mr. Thorrin.
The more Dave denies that he is lucky, the more he finds himself in situations that make it appear that he is. As the stakes rise both financially and personally, Dave is left to decide whether his run of good fortune is a gift or a curse.
“I really tried to save Scott Carter’s Blind Luck (Dark Star, $18.95) to read around a campfire but after making the mistake of indulging in the first few pages, before I knew it, zoom, it was over.
Dave Bolden is a young accountant whose life changes a bit dramatically. Late to work after a night of six pints and a couple of shots of vodka, he is recovering on the john when an 18 wheel transport truck crashes through the front door at his work – killing everyone but him. Dazed, he wonders through the next few days until a rich, eccentric businessman makes him an offer.
It seems that Dave has been lucky all his life (his twin died at birth, he never had a serious childhood disease, etc.) Can he pick a stock, guess how much money is in someone’s bank account, or choose the point total of a football game? You betcha! Dave is drawn into a strange life as a good luck charm. He also struggles with his father, a life-long gambler now afflicted with dementia.
Will Dave’s luck hold out? Is it a gift or a curse? This page-turner of a novel is a treatise on family, fortune and fate, a fast trip into the world of chance. Couple it up with Girl Crazy and you have two very smart, stylish works of big city imagination." -Andrew Armitage – The Sun Times Column – May 8th, 2010
I’ve been looking forward to reading this book for quite some time. Based on what I’ve read from Scott Carter in the past, you can expect great characters matched with an intriguing plot. After all, who doesn’t wonder if things like fate or luck play a role in determining our lives? What the main character, Dave, goes through in this novel is sure to cause readers to reflect and wonder about what turns their own lives might take. So far I’ve only read brief excerpts of the book but based on Carter’s script and screen writing credentials I have high hopes and expectations that I don’t doubt will be met. Hopefully this is just the first of many novels from this great Canadian talent! Amazon Book Review – Brian Wilkinson | Post your own review
“Blind Luck is a poignant rumination on the nature of family, fortune, and fate in the guise of a breakneck page-turner. Scott Carter shows a veteran’s surefootedness in his debut.” -Craig Davidson, author of Rust and Bone and The Fighter.
“Scott Carter has arrived…Blind Luck is a revelation…a rambunctious ride along that slippery slope called chance.” -Brad Smith, author of Big Man Coming Down the Road