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, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, 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 Seignthaler, Editorial Director, USA Today.