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310 pages of excellent text, with many great photos. The roller-coaster story of a life so gripping that it reads like fiction. From remote British Columbia to West Palm Beach, from $100,000 a year to drifter, from a tense murder trial to Spenser's own violent murder. First Edition.

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The night Brian Spencer first played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, his father was angry that the local TV station was airing another game. After driving to the station with a gun and forcing the staff to show the Leaf game, he died in a stand-off with the RCMP. “Spinner” played 553 NHL games, but life after hockey wasn’t easy. In 1988, a year after his acquittal on kidnapping and murder charges, he died from a gunshot during a drug-related robbery in Florida. O’Malley is an excellent journalist and this is a powerfully told story of a tragic life. 

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