PAYDIRT (Super Bowl Thrillers Book 1)

When a star running back for the New York Giants is accused of murdering a New York Jets receiver, the defense attorney reluctantly takes the case. The discovery of similar murders connected to his client leads Carpenter into a world of drugs, corruption, and scandal. Football provides such a great backdrop for suspense novels that Harlan Coben launched his Myron Bolitar series with the football thriller Deal Breaker.

The debut mystery featuring the quick tempered sports agent finds him on the brink of the big time after signing the biggest NFL prospect in years. But when the rookie quarterback is haunted by a ghost from his past, all bets are off.

Check them out before you tune in for Super Bowl Sunday! Share this story, Choose your platform! Enter Your First Name. Goodreads Feed Joel's bookshelf: Crisp writing, great characters. Doesn't go where you think it will go. Lot's of fun and funny. Plus, very interesting insights into improv and how to apply rules of improv to the work place.

Jun 23, Carol rated it liked it. First and foremost there are many spelling and grammar mistakes.

PAYDIRT–Rigging the Super Bowl

This is one of those books that isn't great but the reader does want to finish it. I skipped portions of it and didn't seem to miss much. I couldn't bring myself to stop reading it, however, as the storyline was interesting. Feb 10, Penelope Belrose rated it it was ok. Skimmed through it to get to the end. I couldnt get into this one. Maybe it was the football-ish theme. Just not for me. Aug 07, Jool rated it it was amazing. This was an intense, exciting read about a football dynasty - The "Dallas Mustangs" and their over-wealthy owner.

While it is a fiction book, it is easy to insert names into the right places. It is the first in a series of Superbowl Thrillers, and even though I am not a football fan, and don't even understand the intricacies of the game, it made for thrilling reading. Bobby Gallagher is married to the team owners' daughter and is the team legal counsel.

After rigging trial after trial so the foo This was an intense, exciting read about a football dynasty - The "Dallas Mustangs" and their over-wealthy owner. After rigging trial after trial so the football players can and do get away with every crime under the sun, Bobby comes clean to the press. He cannot take the ill morals any more, the lies, the bribery. He thinks his beloved wife will back him up. He finds out differently. At least he gets to still see the light of his life, his 12 year old son Scott. But the ex-father in law and wealthy team owner not only gets him disbarred but tries to end his ties to his son Scott.

This pushes Bobby a step too far. I highly recommend this book. You don't have to be a fan of the game to enjoy the book! And if you are a football fan, this book will be fascinating! Nov 16, Pat Greene rated it really liked it. Super story Feels like Damon Runyon revisited but with today's timely could be true story! A fun read thoroughly enjoyable! Read it in one sitting! Aug 03, Melissa rated it liked it Shelves: Ah, didn't like the main character! The story is about a man who was the legal counsel for the Dallas Cowboys and was married to the owner's daughter.

He was asked to get players off after they had done something legitimately bad and he was good at it. However, after his conscience gets to him, rather than just quitting, he talks with Ah, didn't like the main character! However, after his conscience gets to him, rather than just quitting, he talks with the media in a very vocal and public way. He looses his job of course and his wife leaves him.

The whole story revolves around the fact that his wife chooses her dad over him. That he wants to have her back and their teenage son.

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And in the meantime, he's a bookie and a limo chauffer and the owners of the football team is doing anything in his power to ruin him and leave him with nothing. The premise is good, I'd have like the main character to have a bit more moral character however. Not awful, not great, but I still read it all and I was interested. Probably won't read it again however. Mar 09, Nancy Silk added it. It's fiction, but can be very real. In this exciting novel, Bobby Gallagher has it all. Then, he loses everything: He has bent too many rules in the legal aspects perpetuating fraud.

His father-in-law has one goal in life: Bobby can't follow this trail of deceit and walks away receiving strong hatred from his boss. He is now disbarred, divorced, and bankrupt. But his one best person in life is his wise, devoted year-old son. This is a robust thriller which I found to be a fast page turner.

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And I loved reading about the Super Bowl Bobby Gallagher has it all. A great job, a wonderful wife and a super kid. However, he has his priorities all wrong and invests most of his time at his job as the lawyer for the Dallas Mustangs. When he crosses his father-in-law, the owner of said football team, Bobby finds himself unemployed. Worse, he finds himself divorced and broke.

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He finds a job as a part-time chauffeur and bookie and vows to get it all back - including wife and son. But to do so, he concocts a scheme to fix the Superbowl s Bobby Gallagher has it all. But to do so, he concocts a scheme to fix the Superbowl so that a series of bad bets will turn in his favor. He'll need the help of his son and have to dodge the bad guys, but it's all in a days work. A man who redefines himself and his values, a hilarious caper and a family who needs one another, Pay Dirt is a rip-roaring good time read!

I highly recommend it!! Oct 07, Valerie Downs rated it liked it. It would be a five star book,,, but for my lack of understanding the football game. I honestly think a good understanding of the game of football would definitely enhance the enjoyment of this book. Also a little bit of knowledge concerning betting on games would also make a difference as well. That being said I still enjoyed the book a great deal. There are were lots of things I didn't see coming and I raced right through it. Its a solid book. Aug 10, Dan Barbier rated it it was amazing.

A bit different from his other novels, but you still recognize the Levine touch.

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Although I did not plan it this way, reading Paydirt, a novel about football and the Super Bowl, the week of the Super Bowl, made a lot more sense. Being Canadian and not really a Football fan, this story about the sanctity of the game being destroyed by owners and criminal players protected by shady team lawyers, is food for thoughts. One of Levine's better books. Dec 03, Jeannie Lemley rated it it was amazing.

Great story, very original plot and well defined characters! It was fast-paced with no boring parts! A real 'page turner' - right to the end! I will definitely read more from Paul Levine, and he has quite a few books out there! Jan 12, Michael Cotter rated it it was ok. Not a football fan The description read for football fans or even if you're not, but I couldn't make it through the first several pages so totally football in order to get to something I could relate to like a character.