Download or read book Body Slam written by Rex Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVTargeted by thugs, a wrestling impresario reaches out to an old friend/divDIV When Otto Lidke got a tryout in pro football, he hired a lawyer friend named Jim Raiford to handle his contract. The negotiations were bungled, forcing both men into a career change. Trying to start a pro wrestling circuit in Denver, Lidke runs afoul of the national federation, which does everything it can—legal and otherwise—to stamp out his new venture. When shady business practices escalate into threats on his life, Lidke calls on Raiford, now a private investigator, to dig up some dirt on the men who are trying to put him out of business./divDIV But instead he gets Raiford’s daughter, Julie—a whip-smart sleuth looking to prove she’s every bit as savvy as her father. As Julie and her dad dig into the vicious world of small-time wrestling, they find that though the fights may be fixed, the danger is all too real. /divDIV/div/div