“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