When Paul Augustus Caine is released from prison in Winfield, Georgia, he immediately gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Charles "Fit" McCoy, travel to a small town not far from the prison: Diggstown, a place obsessed with boxing.
Mean-spirited Boss James Gillon owns almost all of Diggstown. He is feared by many but also respected because he was the former manager of Diggstown's pride and joy, the once-famous boxer Charles Macum Diggs, the man for whom the town is named.
Caine manipulates Gillon into making a bet by talking trash about Diggs, saying that a fighter named Honey Roy Palmer can knock out any ten Diggstown men in two days. The bet is $10,000... and the con is on--the city slickers against the redneck hicks. Now all Caine has to do is convince Palmer to come out of retirement and risk his life for one last big score.
The hooks, jabs, crosses and double crosses fly fast and furious as bookies circle the fight and the side bets grow to outrageous amounts. Caine expects to walk out of Diggstown with a cool half a million, while Gillon expects to win it all. While Caine and Gillon angle for an advantage, all Honey Roy Palmer has to do is achieve the impossible...
Made into a feature film starring James Woods, Lou Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Heather Graham and Oliver Platt, Diggstown was originally published by Doubleday as The Diggstown Ringers.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Mean-spirited Boss James Gillon owns almost all of Diggstown. He is feared by many but also respected because he was the former manager of Diggstown's pride and joy, the once-famous boxer Charles Macum Diggs, the man for whom the town is named.
Caine manipulates Gillon into making a bet by talking trash about Diggs, saying that a fighter named Honey Roy Palmer can knock out any ten Diggstown men in two days. The bet is $10,000... and the con is on--the city slickers against the redneck hicks. Now all Caine has to do is convince Palmer to come out of retirement and risk his life for one last big score.
The hooks, jabs, crosses and double crosses fly fast and furious as bookies circle the fight and the side bets grow to outrageous amounts. Caine expects to walk out of Diggstown with a cool half a million, while Gillon expects to win it all. While Caine and Gillon angle for an advantage, all Honey Roy Palmer has to do is achieve the impossible...
Made into a feature film starring James Woods, Lou Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Heather Graham and Oliver Platt, Diggstown was originally published by Doubleday as The Diggstown Ringers.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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