As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event. David Ross MacDonald (born January 27 1965 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada) is a Canadian sailor.

He began sailing at the age of 11. He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event.