Punter Nick “Hangman” Gallow has just witnessed the drive-by shooting of his club’s top draft pick. The prime suspect is another teammate—outlandish veteran linebacker Jai Carson. To get to the bottom of the murder and clear his own name, Gallow must enter Carson’s world, and win his trust
Excerpted from the novel Hangman’s Game, © 2015 by Bill Syken. Minotaur Books, a division of St. Martin’s. Printed with permission.
Jai Carson’s home is an Etruscan-style mansion with an electronic gate that opens when I arrive; I pull up into a large semicircular drive and park next to a black Mercedes, a white Bentley, a black Cadillac Escalade, a black Range Rover, a dark-green Prius and, at the end, a true junker—an old boat of a car with one panel of dark maroon, while the rest of the body is baby blue.