Fight Card: Front Page Palooka - Paperback
Fight Card: Front Page Palooka - Paperback
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by Anthony Venutolo (Author)
Newark, New Jersey, 1954 Years of fight halls and newsrooms have East Coast sportswriter Nick Moretti looking for a change. When a sloppy hustle goes bad, and Nick takes a bullet in the shoulder, it's time to go west. Hired by Pinnacle Pictures to write a boxing movie about troubled heavyweight champ Jericho 'Rattlesnake' McNeal, Nick joins forces with sexy public relations gal, Dillian Dawson, for a cross-country tour to give an everyman boxer an unlikely shot at the world title - what could go wrong? From the crackling neon of Hollywood and Sin City, through the steamy Delta, and on to Chi-Town, the glitzy dream becomes a noir nightmare, and newshound Nick Moretti is about to commit a reporter's greatest sin - becoming a Front Page Palooka ...
Author Biography
By day, Anthony Venutolo is an online editor and digital strategist at The Star-Ledger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper in Northern New Jersey. By night, he dabbles in flash fiction, short stories and poetry. On the features and news front, the award-winning journalist has freelanced for such magazines as Bikini, Details, Chance, Men's Health and Playboy Online. He also wrote a column for the gambling magazines Casino Player and Strictly Slots. Online, his flash fiction and poems have appeared at Zygote in My Coffee, Red Fez, Deuce Coupe, Gutter Eloquence, Shoots and Vines and Six Sentences. "Front Page Palooka" is his first novel.
