Only a Game

by Robert Daley

 
DUKE CRAIG, TEN YEARS A PRO FOOTBALL STAR, is thirty-one. His body aches, his marriage is a mess but he still loves to win. He is clean-living, clean-thinking--and singleminded---a much admired hero of the football world. His teammates and next Sunday's game come first. Then he meets another woman.
 
    

Genres: Sports

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Robert Daley is the author of seventeen novels and eleven non-fiction books. Born and brought up in New York, he graduated from Fordham University, did his military service in the Air Force and began writing stories, articles and books immediately afterward. He was a New York Times foreign correspondents for six years based in France but covering stories from Russia to Ireland to Tunisia, fifteen or more countries in all. Much later he served as an NYPD deputy commissioner, which explains why many of his books have played out against a police background. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and six of his books have been filmed. He is married with three daughters. He and his French born wife divide their time between a house in Connecticut and an apartment in Nice. France.