Sports Journalist Mysteries
1 primary work
Book 1
Ed Buck, sportswriter, and Adam Benson, the Chicago Bears' quarterback, once played college football on the same team. Now Benson confesses to Buck that the mob is forcing him to throw games - and that he's going to play to win against the New York Giants. Benson dies in the middle of the game, apparently of a heart attack. Ed Buck knows it was murder - and convinces a police detective to probe the tangled connections between the dead quarterback and the head of an organized crime family. As real as a Super Bowl play-by-play, Fourth Down is on target as a novel about sports...and the lengths to which a man will go for his friends.