Jim Goodwin

Left Field Jim Goodwin

This story of the Braun Brothers is one of forced interdependence in spite of sibling rivalry. The ordered life of Joseph, the younger brother, falls apart after a man gets killed as the result of a barroom brawl. Joseph's older brother Harry goes to jail and Joseph starts to work with deprived teens at a non-profit. When Harry is released, Joseph has to re-invent himself again and is now forced to care for his brother who has suffered brain damage during his incarceration. Together they build a landscape maintenance business and a real estate business. Now wealthy, Harry retires and Joseph tries politics. Corruption beckons and an old underworld contact of Harry's surfaces and provides their final challenge.