Peter Gent, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-55611-384-0
This new novel by the author of North Dallas Forty is a gritty tale of what money and national attention have done to corrupt college sports since the 1960s. Former basketball star Pat Lee is now assistant coach of Southwestern State University's...
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Peter Gent, Author Villard Books $19.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-394-55426-6
This sequel to Gent's very funny look behind the scenes of professional football, North Dallas Forty , is not what you'd expect. Most of the major characters are back, and their lives after football are right on target (coach B. A. Quinlan is now...
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Peter Gent, Author Signet Book $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-16903-7
This follow-up to North Dallas Forty features many of the original characters and describes their lives after football, emphasizing corruption, murder and drugs. ``Gent uses a series of flashbacks expertly . . . but his farfetched story is too...
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Peter Gent, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-13365-8
Much of the text early on has to do with the bitter and prolonged divorce in the 1980s of ex-NFL player Gent (North Dallas Forty) and his second wife, whom he portrays as a lying, thieving birdbrain (deciding that she wants a career, she is torn...
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