Playing for Pizza

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRick Dockery is the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns In the AFC Championship game to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone Rick actually gets into the game With a seventeen-point lead and just minutes to go Rick provides what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL Overnight he becomes a national laughingstockmdashand is immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teamsBut all Rick knows is football and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him Against enormous odds Rick finally gets a jobmdashas the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers of Parma Italy The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL playermdashany former NFL playermdashat their helm And now theyrsquove got Rick who knows nothing about Parma not even where it is and doesnrsquot speak a word of Italian To say that Italymdashthe land of fine wines extremely small cars and football americanomdashholds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatementBONUS This edition includes an excerpt from John Grishams The Litigators.