{"product_id":"the-code-isbn-9780735233416","title":"The Code","description":"Brad Shade has been just about everywhere hockey is played. He has ridden the buses in the minors, shared dressing rooms with the legends of the game, closed bars with guys destined for the Hall of Fame, and dropped the gloves with journeymen like himself who’ll never get near it. Now that he’s retired after fourteen years of bouncing around the league, he’s living out of a suitcase and scouting for Los Angeles, where someone in management owes him a favour from his playing days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when the brutally murdered body of coaching legend Red Hanratty turns up in the parking lot after an old-timers charity game, Shade’s job of scouting the local phenomenon starts to overlap with investigating the killing of the kid’s grizzled old coach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom small-town rinks to the draft tables in the big league, G.B. Joyce introduces us to a character with a self-deprecating sense of humour and an oversized will to win—and weaves a story out of strands of resentment, greed, and fear that span generations and build to a surprising, thrilling conclusion.\"One of the great 'insider' fictions of the professional hockey world. Funny and full of dirty fights both on and off the ice, it delivers an astringent look into big league machinations and the human costs of playing the game.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Andrew Pyper, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardians and The Damned \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Gare Joyce writes with guts and gusto. . . . Cunning, funny, and powerful.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Robert Rotenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guilty Plea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStranglehold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"G.B. Joyce is Gare Joyce, one of Canada's finest sportswriters, an award-winner who knows how to tell a tale, which makes \u003ci\u003eThe Code\u003c\/i\u003e simply terrific. . . . Joyce takes us on a brief, witty and devilishly clever trip. . . . The writing and characters are so very, very good. There's plenty of behind-the-lines chat to amuse the hockey fans, but even if, like me, you have never watched a puck, you will find Brad Shade and \u003ci\u003eThe Code\u003c\/i\u003e good to the final paragraph. \" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A great read for anyone who loves hockey.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e (Montreal)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hockey's inherently gothic and operatic qualities make an ideal backdrop for murder, and Joyce . . . exploits them with verve. . . . Here's hoping [Brad Shade's] next shift is as entertaining as his first.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Buy the book.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNOW\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lively crime novel.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The evocation of hockey's atmosphere has never been so expertly done in fiction.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I enjoyed the book very much and recommend it highly.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Brian Burke, former president and general manager, Toronto Maple Leafs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of this continent's master craftsmen of sporting prose . . . as fine a writer as can be found in any field.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This thriller has enough juice to satisfy those who've never been to a rink.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Joyce's] knowledgeable, engagingly cynical perspective on hockey should prove compelling even for those readers with no interest in the sport.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Part\u003ci\u003e CSI\u003c\/i\u003e, part \u003ci\u003eL.A. Law\u003c\/i\u003e, part \u003ci\u003eHockey Night in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e—Gare Joyce deserves a championship ring for his uncanny portrayal of Brad Shade, the earthy, educated hockey scout sleuth. This is sports writing, crime writing, and just plain writing as good as it gets.” \u003cbr\u003e—Roy MacGregor, author of \u003ci\u003eWayne Gretzky’s Ghost\u003c\/i\u003eG.B. Joyce is the author of six books of sports non-fiction, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Devil and Bobby Hull\u003c\/i\u003e. He has worked for ESPN since 2003 and before that was a sports columnist at \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. Gare worked for a year as a scout for the Columbus Blue Jackets while researching a previous book.","brand":"Penguin Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303057314021,"sku":"NP9780735233416","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780735233416.jpg?v=1767738725","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-code-isbn-9780735233416","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}