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A corrupt football team fights to become the sport's dominant franchiseThe Texas Pistols never should have been. The league had no business awarding a team to dying Park City, but it only took a little pressure-financial and otherwise-to bring the expansion franchise to town. At first, they're worthless, playing in an empty stadium for slack-jawed fans, but the owners have a plan. Five years to financial security. Five years to complete domination of the sport. Five years to the Super Bowl. And it starts with Taylor Rusk. But Rusk, the finest college quarterback of his generation, is no fool, and he realizes quickly that all is not honest in Park City. He doesn't want to stop the corruption; he wants a piece of it, and for a price he will lead his new team to glory. In Texas, football is life. But in Park City, it can mean death, too.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Gent
Peter Gent (b. 1942) never intended to become a football player. In high school and college he was a basketball center, and upon graduation was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets to play in the NBA. On a whim, he attended a training camp for the Dallas Cowboys, who asked him to join the team. Over four seasons he did well for the team, but his contributions off the field were more important. The first Cowboy to wear his hair long, Gent brought the '60s to one of America's most conservative franchises. At his career's end, Gent turned to writing, debuting with the sensational North Dallas Forty, a look at the dark side of professional football, which was made into a film in 1979 starring Nick Nolte. He lives in his hometown of Bangor, Michigan.
Bibliographische Angaben
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Autor:
Peter Gent
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2011, 558 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1453220704
- ISBN-13: 9781453220702
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2011
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Dateiformat: ePub
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Größe: 0.75 MB
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Pressezitat
“Peter Gent . . . is good, astonishingly so.” —Larry King
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