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A football thriller based around a bid for the greatest prize – the World Cup – and the race towards the Qatar 2022 vote. Over-thinking strategist Asher Fox, his Ugandan best mate Windsor, and the world's top young footballer join forces to rid the game of corruption and elitism. But, personality clashes and back-stories get tangled up in world power politics and the waters become well and truly muddied.
300 pages, Paperback
Published June 28, 2022
About the author
James Rose, JJ Rose
3 books1 followerJJ (James) Rose is a journalist, author, communications and media specialist, academic, and former political advisor who has worked in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia.
He has written for The Columbia Journalism Review, Nikkei Asia, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Al-Jazeera, The Lowy Institute, The New Statesman, The Washington Post, and the South China Morning Post, amongst others.
He has worked as a global media advisor for Morgan Tsvangirai, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Burmese pro-democracy movement, and was Advisor to the former Special Humanitarian Envoy for the World Food Program, Hon. Abdulaziz bin Mohamed Arrukban.
He has taught Journalism at Brisbane's Griffith University.As a teenager, James trialed with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City, and Brentford, and was offered a youth contract with Eddie Thomson's Sydney City Slickers.
He's not a fan of the billionaire's club, otherwise known as the EPL, but if pushed he would turn up at a West Ham game, and he occasionally Roars for Brisbane. He still dreams of the '06 Socceroos Golden Generation, Guus, and the lost opportunities.
He has written for The Columbia Journalism Review, Nikkei Asia, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Al-Jazeera, The Lowy Institute, The New Statesman, The Washington Post, and the South China Morning Post, amongst others.
He has worked as a global media advisor for Morgan Tsvangirai, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Burmese pro-democracy movement, and was Advisor to the former Special Humanitarian Envoy for the World Food Program, Hon. Abdulaziz bin Mohamed Arrukban.
He has taught Journalism at Brisbane's Griffith University.As a teenager, James trialed with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City, and Brentford, and was offered a youth contract with Eddie Thomson's Sydney City Slickers.
He's not a fan of the billionaire's club, otherwise known as the EPL, but if pushed he would turn up at a West Ham game, and he occasionally Roars for Brisbane. He still dreams of the '06 Socceroos Golden Generation, Guus, and the lost opportunities.
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June 23, 2025
This book got to the top of my unread pile as if by accident, but I delved in, without really knowing what to expect. The storyline was fast-moving, international and exciting, and I was intrigued as to where the story was taking me.
I had high hopes that the ending would be climactic, as the first half of the book had set the scene beautifully. The grand finale wasn't the ending I had hoped for though, and it seemed to end as though it was an account of a real-life journey that didn't quite make it to the destination. The characters were fascinating, the multiple changes of setting perhaps mirror the author's nomadic life in media, the only downside was the over-flowery language and super-descriptive scene-setting that seemed to dampen the imagination and didn't really add to the story.
There was a tendency to change tenses mid-sentence and mid-paragraph that didn't make sense, and a few grammatical errors that didn't fit in with the boffin-like prose. But it had me sucked in, and after a couple of false starts, I ploughed through the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will be interesting to read something else by this author.
I had high hopes that the ending would be climactic, as the first half of the book had set the scene beautifully. The grand finale wasn't the ending I had hoped for though, and it seemed to end as though it was an account of a real-life journey that didn't quite make it to the destination. The characters were fascinating, the multiple changes of setting perhaps mirror the author's nomadic life in media, the only downside was the over-flowery language and super-descriptive scene-setting that seemed to dampen the imagination and didn't really add to the story.
There was a tendency to change tenses mid-sentence and mid-paragraph that didn't make sense, and a few grammatical errors that didn't fit in with the boffin-like prose. But it had me sucked in, and after a couple of false starts, I ploughed through the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will be interesting to read something else by this author.
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