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 the prospect—on any given Sunday—of a fix.” —John Seignthaler, Editorial Director, USA Today