The Draft - Hardcover

Less than two weeks before the draft begins, Baltimore Ravens GM Jon Sabino loses his star quarter-back in an auto accident. The two-time Super Bowl winner realizes the only way to get a replacement is to steal away the young QB phenom, Christian McKinley - now he just needs to move from the last pick in the draft to the first. But that's a task easier said than done - especially when the other GMs will stop at nothing to keep him from winning yet another championship ring. And then there's a young man from the Philadelphia projects whose arm is just as good as McKinley's - except that he wants nothing to do with the NFL. He'll have to face an old family secret and bitter legacies if he ever goes pro. But he just might be the salvation Sabino needs. NFL fans will delight in this insider's entry into the GM's head office, sweat through draft negotiations and back-handed deals, and revel in pure NFL glory.

Wil Mara, a lifelong fan of the National Football League, is the author of more than seventy-five books. He has written both fiction and nonfiction, for both children and adults. Aside from his "NFL novels," he also wrote the 2005 disaster thriller "Wave, " which won the 2005 New Jersey Notable Book Award.