Titans

By Tim Green

Book Overview

In Tim Green's hard-hitting novel, professional football meets professional gambling, as star quarterback Hunter Logan suddenly finds himself going head-to-head with the New York Mafia. Like North Dallas Forty crossed with The Firm.--USA Today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157036057X
• ISBN13: 9781570360572
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Turner Pub
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Green's best football book! A Great Fast Read!

I want to start out by saying that I live in the part of Long Island where a lot of the scenes take place so for me that added to the suspense. Second, don't pay any attention to that Kirkus garbadge!! For some reason he hates Tim Green If that idiot had botherd to read the book and not just skim it he would know that it does say exactly why Logan places the bet. Third, I have read all of Tim Green's football books and this is the best one. There aren't many surprises but the mafia vs. FBI depiction is excellent. This book is great for football fans especially for New Yorkers. It has a typical Tim Green ending but it is still a great read. It really does move like a two-minute drill.

It's Tony Soprano on the five yard line!

TITANS centers around New York Titans All-Star quarterback Hunter Logan on the event that elevated him to hero-worship: winning the Super Bowl. What his teammates and wife don't realize is that Hunter also has a slight problem. To make sure that he remains in the cash and to satisfy a urge to play chance, he makes side bets on basketball games with the help of a bookie meadiated by his friend and former teammate, Metz. Chance plays a heavier hand in Hunter's life when buddy Metz takes his latest cash bet from Hunter and places every dime on the Titans to win their latest game. The amount betted alerts Tony Rizzo, ganster and begging to be leader of his uncle's mafia family, to tail Metz and discover Hunter's involvement, then blackmail him into a points shaving racket that will involve Tony going to the owner of the Titans and exposing him to the NFL if he doesn't comply. Need more incentive, then how about killing Hunter's wife, then his daughter? What neither realizes is that Ellis Cook, FBI agent and leader of a mob task force, is trailing Tony and looking for evidence to send him to prison and close down the connecting families operating in New York. What Cook doesn't realize is that within the walls of the FBI, a traitor is spilling the developments of the impending case against Tony to his uncle, Vincent Mondolffi, one of the ruling families. The mole is easy to figure out, but the development of the story is not, and just when it looks like there is no way out, another door opens and the suspense kicks in on another level. Lengthy, yet worthy of more football-suspense stories. Good work, Mr. Green!

Good but no surprises

When I read Green's book, I was startled to realized that I could predict what was going to happen next. It was one of those bad guy/good guy books that have not a whole lot new to offer. Except the ending. I wouldn't have guessed it in a million years. It's worth reading just for that.

Grisham + Gridiron

Titans rates as my favorite fiction book of all time! As an avid reader of fiction and lover of professional football, Tim Green brings the best of both worlds. And for those who could only dream of playing in the NFL, Green gives a "back stage pass" into the locker room we always desired to be a part of (although after reading all of Green's books, I now question that desire). Titans is a nonstop page-turner filled with excitement at every turn. If you love football, you'll love Titans! (If you ever read this Mr. Green, keep it up! There are some die hard fans of yours out here. By the way, how about a book on a team made up of illegal man-made Terminator-like robots; a story of teams dominated and controlled by unscrupulous and player mind-controlling shoe manufacturers; or a maverick owner who will stop at nothing short of murder to win?) CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THE UPCOMING "RED ZONE!"

An All-Pro effort in the realm of sports fiction

Green submits a realistic view of professional football; the gambling problems in it and the reality of an athlete getting mixed-up in it. His characters are believable from the star quarterback, to the cautious wife, to the mafia slimeball. A great read from a man who lived and played in that world