Description:
The Mighty Johns is a collection of football mysteries from top writers in addition to a novella about a college football star who delves into a forty-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a star player.
Brief description:
Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of twenty novels and more than 150 short stories, and his works have appeared in nearly a dozen countries. He is also a Jeopardy! game show champion.
Review Quotes:
The extraordinary novella by thriller king David Baldacci that leads off this exceptional anthology of new fiction centered on crime and football is alone worth the book's cover price. The Mighty Johns is one of the more remarkable stories ever written on a sports theme...Editor Penzler has put together a team of authors that's simply all-star. Colin Harrison and Dennis Lehane contribute Good Seats and Gone Down to Corpus...There's a superb offering from Anne Perry, The End of Innocence...PI writer James Crumley tells a mordant tale of a former player, now a loser, who turns to bank robbery, in Semi-Pro, while another mystery great, Lawrence Block, turns in the nicely black-humored The Ehrengraf Reverse. Bestselling authors Brad Meltzer and Tim Green also take the field...Mike Lupica, Brendan DuBois, John Westermann, Peter Robinson, Carol O'Connell, and Gary Phillips round out the players in the most exciting sports fiction anthology in years.
-- "Publisher Weekly"