Fourth Down

by Dave Klein

Dave Kleins insiders knowledge of the game and the men who play it informs every page of Fourth Down. Ed Buck, sportswriter, and Adam Benson, the Chicago Bears star quarterback, once played college... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312863705
• ISBN13: 9780312863708
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Sports: Good and Bad

Sports are a great time to have fun and make friends. Playing sports also have some bad sides. Injuries and heartbreak are just part of the game. Fourth down, by Dave Klein, trully brings this to attention by telling the story of two football teammates. Ed Buck and Adam Benson who lived in Pennsylvania were best friends and high school teammates.The country's leading high school quarterback Adam Benson left Pennsylvania to play football at Oklahoma University. Ed left without a scholarship with the dream of being a walk-on playing on the offensive line at OU. After college, the Bears drafted Adam and Ed, but Ed tore up his knee in the college all star game, ending a promising career. Adam started a great pro career while Ed became a sports writer for the New York Express.After twelve years in the NFL, Adam is having his worst season ever. He informed Ed that he has a cocaine addiction and he had to borrow money from some bad people. He has been throwing games, but Adam plans to play his best against the New York Giants. During the game, Adam dies of a heart attck. Ed is heart broken and is at a loss for words. Though he places his life on the line, Ed starts an investigation.This fiction novel is wonderfully written and it is obvious that Dave Klein has made great sports books before. Fourth Down is very enttertaining and included a stupendous mix between comedy and drama. Directed toward a male audience especially young males, I would suggest this book anytime.

INTERESTING CRIME MYSTERY - FAST READ

I read this book in one evening and it was worth the time. Interesting story with good character development and a great twist ending. Includes it all, Sports, the Mob, Crime in a great story line. I recommend you read it. It's worth your time and money.

Enjoyable sports mystery

In 1968, the country's leading high school quarterback Adam Benson left Pennsylvania to play football at Oklahoma University. In that same year, Ed Buck left New York City without a scholarship with the dream of being a walk-on playing on the offensive line at OU. In 1972, the Bears draft Adam and Ed, but the lineman ripped up his knee in the now defunct college all star game, ending a promising career before it began. Adam started a great pro career while Ed became a sports writer for the New York Express. A dozen years later, Adam is having his worst season ever. He talks with his pal Ed, informing the journalist that his cocaine habit led him to borrow money from the wrong people. He has been throwing football games, but has had it. Adam plans to play at his best against the Giants. However, during the game, Adam dies from an apparent heart attack. Ed thinks a gambling syndicate killed his friend. Though he places his life on the line, the intrepid reporter only knows one way to go and that is right up the middle. FOURTH DOWN is a touchdown winning sports mystery that fans of the sub-genre will relish. The sports segments and the related gambling sub-plot are superbly written, enticing sport and non-sport fans to read more novels by Dave Klein. Though the mob sequences seem pale by comparison, they do not slow down the frantic pace of a story line that reads more like a two minute drill. With this novel and BLINDSIDE, Mr. Klein is deserving of the writers equivalent to the "Lombardi Trophy" for authors of excellent sports mysteries.Harriet Klausner