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Red Zone
Lupica, Mike
2003 40435 In his highly entertaining 15th book, Lupica, the syndicated New York Daily News sports columnist and ESPN commentator, takes another turn as novelist, revisiting his hell-for-leather protagonist, Jack "The Jammer" Molloy, the wisecracking, hard-boozing, womanizing owner of the NFL's New York Hawks. As this sequel to Bump and Run begins, Molloy turns the team over to his evil twin siblings, Ken and Babs, and takes off for Europe with the love of his life, Annie Kay, an up-and-coming TV sports anchor. After Annie heads back to her job in New York, Molloy is living the high life in London when the twins inform him that they have sold their half of the Hawks to the infamous megalomaniacal entrepreneur, Dick Miles, for a cool half-billion. When Miles offers to buy half of Molloy's half and let him stay on as team president for a year, Molloy-against the advice of mentor Billy Grace and Annie Kay-decides to take the deal. Within a month, Miles fires both the general manager and the coach Molloy handpicked to take them to the Super Bowl. Obviously, he not only intends to run the front office, but also plans to take a hand in coaching from the sidelines. When Miles brings in a TV commentator to coach and a psychopathic quarterback barely out of prison on work release, Molloy knows he's made the biggest fumble of his life. Metaphorically facing fourth-and-long in the red zone of NFL boardrooms, Molloy dusts off the old flea-flicker and goes for pay dirt. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Jack Molloy earned the name "The Jammer" from his days as a Vegas concierge, providing the wealthy with special treats as long as they were willing to pay the price. Then he inherited the NFL New York Hawks from his father and, as team president, guided them to the Super Bowl (Bump and Run, 2000). Now Jake has decided to sell a controlling interest in the Hawks to financier Big Dick Miles but to stay on as team president. Then Miles guts the franchise of its loyal management team, and Jack realizes that his position as president will be purely ornamental. That's when Jack the Jammer takes charge, attempting to wrest control from Big Dick by any extralegal means possible. Lupica writes soap-opera fantasies for men in which the money flows, the drinks are all call brands, the athletes are all cool dudes or psychos, and the hero's bedroom is filled with an endless succession of comely sideline reporters, indefatigable cheerleaders, and assorted civilian babes. Jammer starts rich and gets richer, fleeces the evil corporate financier, and ends up on the higher moral ground. Lupica propels the plot at breakneck speed with sitcom-like zingers, nifty Big Apple atmosphere, and an insider's knowledge of professional sports (he's a nationally syndicated sports columnist for New York's Daily News and a regular on ESPN's Sports Reporters). Entertaining, funny, and most likely, another best-seller. Wes Lukowsky Putnam Adult 039915082X / 9780399150821
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