Pound Foolish

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Part locker room chronicle part neo-noir all American: <em>Pound Foolish</em> tackles a season-in-the-life of a pro football team that has a serial killer in its midst.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Someone is murdering women in the orbit of Detroit's NFL franchise. But also: a new season is kicking off</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and nobody can really prove anything. Plus football is one of the last remaining ties that bind a city. So...the games will go on. And they should. Right?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Enter our gumshoe. Mouse Morrison is a former player the team brings in to investigate. The further Morrison digs into the locker room-and the more lunkhead players we meet on their journeys of supremacy and self-destruction-the stronger a stench of conspiracy becomes. Is this a coverup? How deep within the franchise and the league does it go?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The team keeps winning games. The bodies keep piling up. The whole mess bleeds from the sports section to the front page nobody's sure what to believe...and absolutely everybody has an opinion.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pound Foolish </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a rollicking cinematic murder mystery set in a multi-billion-dollar circus teeming with killers. It pulls back the curtain on a sport that grips America's psyche and also owns a bloody chunk of its soul.</span></p><p></p><p><em></em><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Harris skillfully connects the violence required on the field to the violence beyond it without reducing one to a metaphor for the other. Writing from inside the sport's physical and psychological demands Harris delivers a gripping portrait of bad behavior [that] happens in a (shall we say) complicated ecosystem. - Booklife Review</em></p>