Forced to run for his life from Vegas, he must also leave the woman he adores. Vegas is a hard town ruled by the Mafia, but Jack prospers, until his luck turns bad and he falls foul of the Mob. Jack is a virtuoso and hits the road, enchanting audiences in Canada, wartime Europe and Las Vegas, where he is caught up in the world of elite poker and falls under the spell of his boss, the enigmatic Bridgett Fuller. Jack makes music as a way of escaping his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game. Set across three continents, Jack of Diamonds is a spellbinding story of chance, music, corruption and love.ĭuring the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto.
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