Bøger af George Onstot

Canadian pro golfer Grover Bobbitt is freaking out about the numbers in his life: 40 (his age), 3 (his divorces) and 0 (the number of majors he has won). Knowing how rare it is for a man his age to win a major, he goes to Augusta to take on "The Pr*ck," a boy wonder who's almost as great as he thinks he is. Once there, Grover gets down to business right away but can't help being distracted by the boy wonder's sexy, and available, mom.

Canadians Red Crossley and Flash Gortton, both recently retired from the NFL, are trying to figure out what to do with themselves. But then Lord Larry Rawson, Red's father-in-law, decides he can't stand to see their alma mater, Northup University, lose another football game. So Lord Larry, after doing some checking, learns that Scoliosis Robinson, a Louisiana high school football phenom, is the running back who could return the Northup Kodiaks to gridiron glory. But how are Red and Flash going to get that kid?

Clancy Wasserman is God's lonely man: pushing fifty, twice divorced and covering men's golf for a Canadian sports magazine. Out of boredom, he checks out the LPGA and meets teen phenom Vicki Vachon, whose stunning looks and precocious talent promise to make her the Next Big Thing in women's sports. But not everyone is a Vicki fan, and one person in particular wants to take her out of competition--permanently.

At the Canadian Open golf tournament in Bayporte, native son Teddy Crossley holds the lead over his pal (and fellow Canuck) Troy Frisby and superstar Tiger Woods. Can Teddy hold off these world-class opponents, and what can he do about his wife--and two ex-wives--who want a piece of him?

Desiree Dupree, KCA radio's "Ragin' Cajun," is on the air each weeknight, shaking up the Bay Area. Armed with a high school diploma and a Ph.D. in common sense--"no B.A., no B.S."--she tells San Franciscans, and everyone else who cares to listen, what she thinks of the War on Drugs, terrorism, the NFL and, it seems, everything else the people out there can throw at her. Her listeners seethe as her ratings soar. But someone wants to shut her up for good. When he calls in with threats, KCA calls in the cops. Detective Harris Cavanaugh enters the scene--and Desiree's life--as the mystery caller gets closer and closer...

It is February, and the World Winter Games will soon begin in Bayporte, Great Elizabeth, Canada. Andy Kennedy--ex-NHL star, ex-husband, excommunicant from the Canadian Dream--just wants to stay drunk and get warm. Homeless and alcoholic, he seeks comfort in the dark bars and dingy flophouses of skid row. With his street "family"--pals Annie and Joey--Andy tries to salvage the remnants of his shattered life as the cops and courts try to "clean up the streets" in preparation for the Games.

Reg, a big-dreaming boy in a small Canadian town, is the star of this collection of related stories. In Sundown, Great Elizabeth, he fights with his stepmother, avoids his father and tolerates his kid sister. Alternately repelled and intrigued by his fellow Sundowners, he thinks, 'I've got to get out of here.' Coming of age, Reg moves to booming, bustling Bayporte and attends huge, impersonal Northup University. After falling in and out of love a few times, he marries a local rich girl and begins a moderately fulfilling career as an actor (both professionally and personally). Despite his new life, Reg struggles with Sundown's perennial question to him: "What's your problem?"

A contemporary Canadian story about the love between a man and a woman. Myles is 21 and wrongly imprisoned; Nedy is 20 and pregnant. They are physically apart yet spiritually together; absolutely terrified but unflinchingly courageous. Above all, their love sustains them. This is the story of their love, and the love of their families, and the triumph of love in a world flooded with hate.

Paul Steeves, a San Franciscan, transcends his working-class roots to become a Silicon Valley high-technology entrepreneur. The oldest of three children, Steeves makes top grades in high school, helps out at his father's delicatessen and dreams of one day owning the world (or at least a large chunk of it). While attending People's University, Steeves and his best friend Hank build the Cherry, a viable desktop computer that both men believe will revolutionize the world (or, at the very least, become an enormously popular toy). Steeves, a part-time employee at a Market Street arcade called Amazement, stores the Cherry in the arcade's back room. He makes a gift of the computer to Amazement's owner, Fred Bayliss, and pressures Bayliss into investing in the computer company Hank and Steeves are eager to create. The rest, as they say, is history.

A zany novel about steroids in professional sports. The Bayporte Bullies, Canada's hopeless and helpless NHL team, goes from worst to first, and everybody's wondering why. Bullies forward Christopher Crossley (known to all as Chris Cross), knows what's going on but is saying nothing. Ever since being turned on to performance-enhancing drugs, Cross has gotten his teammates "juiced," and they're well on their way to winning the Stanley Cup. But something's bugging him: is a juicer and a cheater really a champion?

Concussions. The word freaks out almost everyone. Some of the NFL's finest--Joe Montana, Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Dan Marino--have been knocked senseless on the field. High school quarterback Rudy Maxa doesn't know that much about head injuries, except that they suck. When Rudy and his mom move from Indiana to northern California, he wonders plenty about the weird behavior of his aging new friend, Mitch. A former footballer himself, Mitch practices with Rudy at mostly deserted Burned Out Park. After a while, Rudy figures out that Mitch's inability to keep things straight comes from having used his head the wrong way few times too often.