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Game Face

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Great read! Kept me in suspense from the front to the back of the book. The timing/subject matter of Game Face is eerily similar to the realities of drug abuse in sports today. Buy the book and you won't be disappointed!!

This was a really fresh and exciting book. I was hoping to buy it for a friend for Christmas. I hope Amazon gets it in soon.

Game Face, in addition to being a terrific murder mystery, is an eye-opening introduction to the world of competitive sports, and the operative word is "competitive." Risking one's own life, and anyone else's if need be, to win, win, win is a scary proposition. This book reads like a movie - get the popcorn, kick back, and enjoy!

This book is nonstop suspence. It truely makes you think about the professional sports world today. Everyone wanting to have the best competitive edge to succeed.

James D. Chlovechok, M.D.
Cambridge Publishing
ISBN 0-9760820-0-4
Game Face
Reviewer: Shelly Waxman

You would think that with the title page, the author's sports medical background, the cover showing pills, and the plugs on the cover and back that this would be a novel about the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. Wrong.

It is not until page 210 before you get to what you were made to believe the book was about. Up until then all you get is a complicated, disconnected and confusing story line with way too many subplots. There are too many characters doing too many things. It is difficult reading.

The book starts out with the arrest and jailing of a professional football player who went berserk and badly beat up a policeman. He had been taking a secret undetectable performance-enhancing drug. The drug is called-you guessed it, didn't you-"game face." The many murders that follow are about an internecine war among many characters in attempts to continue keeping the drug a secret.

But at page 215 we learn that the drug is a fake and it is all a big fraud-one that impelled the gang's warfare because they were making so much money selling it. Dilemma.

If it's a fake, it can't be used as the cause of the football player's bad behavior.

Dilemma solved. They blame it on alcohol and the football player is released to a rehab program and let go to play ball. That's it in a nutshell.

The story is long and boring. Sometimes a book is not what it appears to be. This is such a book.