Third and Long: A Novel for Hard Times

A dying midwest factory town finds new life when a former Notre Dame football star is hired as the local plant manager. Soon he is handed not just the job of saving Made Right clothing but the far more daunting task of saving the town. As it turns out this may be the one challenge for which his checkered career has prepared him.Laced with keen insights into contemporary issues - the power of community pitfalls of the global economy the skewed importance of sports in the lives of people who desperately need a victory - Third and Long is a moving portrait of a vanishing America hanging by a thread with perhaps just enough time remaining for one last miraculous play.