This is a novel about football-professional, that is-in something of the way, say, Bernard Malamud's The Natural is a novel about baseball. In it you can discover the essence, the truth of the warzone the players inhabit that can only be invoked by Pat Toomay, a man who was there.
"Pat Toomay has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince-and worry at his exposition of "the game's" most insidious reality: the prospect - on any given Sunday-of a fix."
John Seigenthaler, USA Today
"Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, gives a sinister turn to the old saw that 'on any given Sunday, one team can beat another'. . . . He writes knowledgeably about football: its strategy, the pain, the respect and hatred between the men in the trenches."
