Don't know tough

"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his u...

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Main Author: Cranor, Eli, 1988-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Soho Crime, 2023.
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Summary: "Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent takes Billy into his home, hoping to protect his star player as the Pirates begin their playoff run. But when Billy's stepfather is found murdered, nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the town apart"--
Physical Description: 294 pages
ISBN: 9781641294560
1641294566
Author Notes: Eli Cranor played quarterback at every level: peewee to professional, and then coached high school football for five years. These days, he's traded in the pigskin for a laptop, writing from Arkansas where he lives with his wife and kids. His work has won The Greensboro Review 's Robert Watson Literary Prize and been featured in Missouri Review , Oxford American , Ellery Queen , The Strand and others. Eli also pens a weekly column, "Where I'm Writing From" for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , and his craft column, "Shop Talk," appears monthly at CrimeReads. He is the author of Don't Know Tough , which won the Peter Lovesey First Crime Novel Contest, and Ozark Dogs. For more information visit elicranor.com.