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Jackson Reilly is a six-foot-three biker with lots of tattoos and a pig-tail that extends half-way down his back. A bouncer for a low-rent strip bar in Victoria, a tourist town on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Jackson's never shied away from a fight, whether it’s with would-be tough... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jackson Reilly: A twenty-five year old biker working as a bouncer for a second-string night club called Rusty's. Jackson's life has no direction. He spends his time drinking, carousing with his biker buddies, and having casual sex with women he barely knows. But he has a past. A past that is destined to catch up with him.
- Auntie Jo: Jackson's seventy-something year old aunt. He thinks of her as a boring old lady, but she's lived a life he can only dream of, playing piano with some of the greats of fifties jazz all over North America and Europe.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jay Allan Storey (Author)
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- Recording of Bach's Italian Concerto: Recording of the brilliant Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould, playing the 3rd movement of Bach's Italian Concerto, a central component of the story.
- Images of Ogden Point breakwater: This is the breakwater on which Jackson performs his 'death ride' in the book (Also a popular scuba diving destination).
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