Flawless Execution
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Descripción editorial
A classic murder mystery set in the high-stakes world of pro football, from the master storyteller of sports and suspense. A Morris & Sullivan Mystery originally published by Ballantine Books, FLAWLESS EXECUTION is now available in a quality ebook edition, featuring active Contents and proper digital formatting.
Who witnessed the murder of cocky, verbose football announcer George Hoagland? Most of America...
After all, it was on Monday night primetime TV. In bars and living rooms across the country, people were setting in with chips, beer, and pizzas to watch the man they loved to hate broadcast yet another glamorous game of pro football. Except this Monday night telecast kicked off with the gruesome sight of George Hoagland's public execution. Fried to death on live TV.
Like the rest of the country, hard-driving southern sportswriter John Morris and his sassy companion (at arms and in bed) Julia Sullivan assumed that there had been a fire in the press box, a bizarre accident.
But their minds are soon changed by George Hoagland's countless enemies and their distinctive, boundless motives. The insulting and arrogant commentator suffered no short-circuit of suspects. Morris and Sullivan determine to go offsides to find his killer....
Includes bonus preview chapters of Logue's acclaimed novel REPLAY: MURDER.
JOHN LOGUE is the author of numerous books of mystery, life in the south, and sports. He has been a feature writer and executive editor of Southern Living magazine, a wire service reporter and sportswriter, and a chronicler of golf at its highest level. He lives with his wife Helen in Birmingham, Alabama.
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John Morris, a former Associated Press reporter, is working on an article for the Atlantic about George Hoagland, a sportscaster resembling Howard Cosell. While at a bar, Morris, companion Julia Sullivan and drinking buddy detective Walter Hatfield, see Hoagland electrocuted on TV; they immediately head for New York's Shea Stadium, where Hoagland died. Conveniently Hatfield is assigned to the case, and Morris, ever the tough reporter, is likewise on the murderer's trail. Bogged down with cliches and persistent attempts at snappy dialogue, the story yawns its way through New York and New Orleans. And when Logue tries for a Chandleresque touchan effete stamp dealer is called in to appraise a collection that may have belonged to FDRthe dealer makes the historically bizarre statement: "My father sold him many stamps, before and after he was President.'' The execution of this mystery is hardly flawless.
