A Vineyard Killing (2003)
“He got a scholarship to New York University and won the NCAA saber championship during his junior and senior years. Then, as you probably know, he became the only American to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing. He was twenty-three.”“Pretty impressive,” I said.Paul Fox nodded. “Yes. He had that monomaniacal focus that it takes to be a champion. He had no life other than studying and fencing, and looking after me.”I raised a brow.Seeing it, he went on. “Our parents were dead, killed in one of th...ose car wrecks you hear about too often: a drunk crossed into their lane and hit them head-on. The drunk lived, of course, but they died. I was ten years old and Donald was in college. Insurance kept us going until he was through school, and after that he paid my way. I was never half the athlete he was and my grades weren’t good enough for a big scholarship, but he parlayed his gold medals into business opportunities, and the same intensity that made him a champion fencer made him the successful businessman he’s become.MoreLess
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