Gamebuster

by Annabel Johnson, Edgar Johnson

Overhearing what seems to be a bomb plot and discovering a dead body in the trunk of his car are only the beginnings of a dangerous adventure in which a high school senior rediscovers his father, an undercover agent, and becomes involved in a fight against dispossessing the Navajos of their lands forever. The CIA, the FBI, and a terrorist organization all want to use Scott Drummond, an injured high school quarterback, to locate his father, the head of an anti-terrorist organization

178 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

From the age of twelve, Annabel was dedicated to a future of being an author, so that by the time she was twenty she had begun to see the happenings of her life as material for books to come. Prior to her writing career she worked in publishing houses as a librarian, as a legal secretary, and in other secretarial posts.

In 1955 she and her husband Edgar began their co-authorship by writing historical novels of the old West, traveling the country, visiting the scenes of their stories and delving into their research while living in an eight-foot camping trailer, trying to make ends meet on an author’s meager royalties. They had no home base, except a certain spot in the Mojave Desert in winter, and another site in the National Forest in Wyoming in the summer.

The Johnsons co-authored many popular works of historical and science fiction both for young adults and adults. They began their career together, however, with several novels set in the Old West, intending to bring that period to life for children far removed from the country. They spent several years traveling throughout the western United States, seeking out little known facets of western history, and compiling accounts of old-timers they met, and of their own experiences. As time passed they shifted their focus more toward the present era, in an effort to help their readers come to terms with today's world.

In 1966, with the growing success of their books, they settled in Denver, but after Edgar’s death, Annabel came home to Arizona, to continue her career in the desert setting she has always loved. She bought a lovely home in Leisure World and settled in. With each new novel she wrote her excitement never left her.

Annabell Jones Johnson passed into a new life February 9, 2013.

Reviews

[Napierre Braddy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Im reading Gamebuster, by Annabel & Gdgar Johnson, this is a fiction book.
Gamebuster takes place In a small football town in the high peaks of the Colorado Rockies, and is about a high-school football player named Scott Drummonda a star quarterback that will never play football again because of an injury, alone in the stadium at night he overhears a terrorist plot that he knows he has to do something about. I thought it was supposed to be some sort of football drama about a kid whose life revolves around football and got badly injured and may never play again but makes a magical comeback.
I like the idea of the book, the idea of a guy from a small town trying to save hundreds to thousands of lives by stopping a terrorist plot with little help from the authorities is very interesting to me. However, I think that they could have made a scenario that made more sense for his backstory because it seemed like the book was going to be a tragic football story but after the first couple pages it completely changes and ignores the fact that he’s in high-school and had a critical injury recently, for this bomb threat story. I feel that the story would have been better if he had to balance his high-school/football life with trying to prevent the terrorist attack. I would give this book a 4-5 out of 10, mainly because I didn’t like the execution/transition of the story, and that at times it felt like I was getting unnecessary information.

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got bored around page 60