Titans

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Summary: Green's best football book! A Great Fast Read!
Review: 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.

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Summary: different team, different kind of corruption
Review: Tim Green returns with another tale of NFL corruption. This time the star player is a quarterback who has gone bad by giving into mob influence and becomes a pawn in the plot of a mob lieutenant who wants to become a heavy hitter in the big leagues. This book does a little more with developing its characters and stays true to the formula of delivering an interesting football-based scandalous plot. It delivers a good ride and a satisfying conclusion.

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Summary: Green's best football book! A Great Fast Read!
Review: Tim Green returns with another tale of NFL corruption. This time the star player is a quarterback who has gone bad by giving into mob influence, becoming a pawn in the plot of a mob lieutenant who himself wants to step into the big leagues. This book does a little more with developing its characters and stays true to the formula of delivering an interesting football-based scandalous plot. It delivers a good ride and a satisfying conclusion.

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Summary: It's Tony Soprano on the five yard line!
Review: 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!

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Summary: It's Tony Soprano on the five yard line!
Review: 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!

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Summary: Good but no surprises
Review: 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.