Only A Game

by Robert Daley

The first serious pro football novel. Duke Craig has been a star since high school. Never mind the physical beating he has taken all those years. Through college and then into the pros, his life has been exemplary. Always he has done right thing, the correct thing, an All American in every sense of the term. He has been a dazzling player, admired by his teammates, by the team's coaches and owners, and adored by fans. Then he meets another woman.

Genres: Sports

322 pages, Kindle Edition

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.