Kick Back

by Phil Savage

When organised crime is in the dressing room, sport is no longer a game. Alec Munday is a player turned journalist who writes a football exposé newspaper column and is a media fixer in the sport. When one of his clients, top striker Diego, falls under the control of international match fixers, only Alec’s column, contacts and cunning can prevent organised crime from corrupting the world’s top football league. This page turner goes into the homes and lives of top footballers, visiting the world’s most glamorous hangouts and some of its darkest criminal hideaways. Hold your breath, as it lifts the lid on the possibility that the beautiful game is a hair’s breadth away from control by some of the world’s most powerful criminal networks.

284 pages, Paperback

Published April 6, 2020

Reviews

[Rigby Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kick Back is more than a high octane thriller, it’s also an absorbing window into the bizarre lives of obscenely well remunerated English Premier grade football players. I was hooked from the first sentence; reactions veering from incredulity at the wealth, excess and stupidity, to nervous apprehension as the likeable hero, Alec Munday navigates his way between innocent players, their bosses and the sociopathic criminals whose desire for ever increasing wealth leads them to vile acts of depravity in their efforts to launder ill-gotten gains.
I highly recommend this book.

[G R SCOTT · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable read

I wouldn't normally pick a book about football to read but did enjoy this one. The author has a easy flowing style and made the whole concept very easy to believe and understand with likeable characters and just enough romance to be interesting. I also liked that it had a beginning, a middle and an end. So many books today leave you hanging in mid air half way through the story line in order that you have to get the next book or even two to complete it

[Anuradha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the story & the attention to detail. It's very gripping and exposes the shadowy underbelly of professional football. Many details surprised me. The characters are varying shades of gray and very real. It's a work of fiction, born out of fact and makes for a fascinating read. Highly recommended !

[Govno Nichevo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought that this overall was a pretty good read. Good pace and intrigue, and quite an engaging story overall. The ebook would benefit from a little more editing (occasionally a word is missing in a sentence) but this did not make comprehension a problem.

[Eric Quillinan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Storyline moves at a good clip, hard to put down once started. Eric Q.

[Tjasa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even if you are not a football fan, you still should read Kick Back. Is just the right mixture of everything and very enjoyable read.