THE INVISIBLE MARGIN: Table Tennis - Eleven Stories of Suspense

About the Book Table tennis is the sport of margins so fine the eye cannot quite see them - the half-millimetre of rubber compression, the millisecond of timing, the spin the layman never catches - and the integrity wrongs in this sport are calibrated to the same scale. Eleven stories, eleven women at the edges of the table-tennis world: an umpire whose service-toss eye is calibrated to the half-second, a racquet-control inspector who reads what a rubber has been treated with, a coach who has seen a sixteen-year-old's training programme bent toward a federation's medal target, an anti-doping chaperone, a championship results-integrity officer. They notice the one thing that does not belong, and decide that the code must mean what it says. Literary suspense in the tradition of great thrillers. For readers who like their crime fiction precise.

Pagina's: 151, Paperback, Independently published