This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. A classic hardboiled tale of a beautiful talent for life in smoky poolrooms 'A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance' TIME OUT 'This book sees the poetry of the pool game. Found insideIn The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed “empty space” of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the.