Classics of Golf is very proud to bring you our newest selection, and a wonderful addition to our fiction collection...
THE GREATEST PLAYER WHO NEVER LIVED
by J. Michael Veron
Critical acclaim from its original publication in 2000.
"Golf's literary rookie of the year."
New York Times
"A master of fiction."
USA Today
"Dual parts Grisham and Feinstein."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Unwritten in the annals of the sporting world is the story of a man with unlimited potential who was denied his rightful place in the lore of golf.
Beauregard Stedman
(painting by W.C. Burgard)
Who was this mysterious golfer with a golden swing and deft touch, whose life and career Bobby Jones followed with such interest? An accused felon fleeing from the law? Or a man falsely-accused whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
And why would one of the greatest athletes of all time risk his spotless reputation to help a man he only met once?
"There must be something about contemporary lawyers from the Deep South that compels them to write crime mysteries. The Mississippi-educated John Grisham is the standard bearer...In the niche of golf mysteries a Tulane-educated attorney from the state of Louisiana, J. Michael Veron, emerged as a virtuoso, with his first novel The Greatest Player Who Never Lived."
"In the Greatest Player you will find complexity, intriguing drama and intellectual challenge." "The Greatest Player succeeds in a perilous genre because Veron combine all of the key elements in a nuanced way. There is a detailed history that adds significantly to the story without becoming pedantic. It doesn't hurt that he chooses Bobby Jones and the Masters as a backdrop, subjects of universal appeal. Nor does it hurt that he conjures up an interesting scenario with a down home Southern character. Since lawyers are incapable of writing a mystery without courtroom drama, Veron also includes his own blow-by-blow rendition with a spine tingling finale. Top it off with interesting vignettes about golf during the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression, and you have a page turner."
--from the Foreword by John Sabino
Classics of Golf's edition of The Greatest Player Who Never Lived is available December 15 at www.classicsofgolf.com.
