Running back again Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the opening, breaking into the open, and running free of charge with only green grass ahead. He offers dreams of earning and to be the very best. But football is certainly a cruel sport. It needs power, grace, swiftness, quickness, and understanding of the game. It takes fortune, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat. What elite athlete wouldn’t search for an advantage? A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster?

This novel explores the dark corners of the heart of a young football player as he struggles for success under the always glaring-and often unforgiving-stadium lights.