SHADOW GAMES by Jim Lester ***Spotlight - Excerpt***


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Coming of Age

Published: June 2018


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Danny McCall loves basketball more than anything in the world. So why would he risk his basketball scholarship, his girlfriend and his entire future to fix the point spread in a series of college basketball games?  Set in the early 1990s, Shadow Games is a topical novel with a powerful portrayal of the loss of youthful innocence.






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Excerpt


There was a dead body in the next room and it was my fault.

     For a while, I stayed in the room with the body. The TV set was on. President Clinton’s face filled the screen. He was taking questions from reporters and they seemed to be having a heated exchange. The sound on the TV was turned off.

     I couldn’t stop looking at the corpse. What had I done?

     When I couldn’t stand it anymore I went into the kitchen. My heart jumped around in my chest like it wanted to leap out and flop around on the floor.

     The cops were on their way. I thought about running but they’d find me. There was no escape. I had to face the music.

     I’d made a mess of my life in just two years. How was that possible?




About the Author

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Jim Lester is the author of three successful young adult novels: Fallout, The Great Pretender and Till the Rivers All Run Dry. He has a Ph.d in history and is the author of a non-fiction book entitled Hoop Crazy: College Basketball in the 1950s.



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