Fourth Down

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.