Sacking the Quarterback by Samantha Towle (James Patterson’s Bookshots Flames)

Everything about this book is delightful:

• James Patterson’s Romance Imprint: hilarious

• The rote back cover blurb and the one-liners inside to sell other Flames titles that use EVERY CHARACTER’S first AND last name: delightful

• 124 pages long: effervescent

• “…Even against a team playing as poorly as the Browns are this season…”: Shots fired and appreciated.

Lawyer Melissa St. James is told to throw the book at Miami Dolphin’s quarterback, Grayson Knight - but she just really wants to throw herself at him.

This novella was just a by-the-book delight. I only have one note: the author, Samantha Towle, is a Brit. And as such, I suspect she wrote Grayson as a rugby player: tree trunk thighs, broad shoulders, huge biceps. The thing that devoted American football fans know is that each position has an ideal body type, and someone described like above, ISN’T a QB. QBs are tall, lanky, lithe. They move fast and light. They are slippery, not bulldozers.

Still, this quick read made me curious about all of James Patterson’s Bookshot Flame titles. Why? Where? Did he ACTUALLY write the introduction or was this, too, ghostwritten.

My deepest thanks and gratitude to my friend, Ian, a romance reader, who picked this book up in an airport, took it back and forth across the world, and made sure I read this amazingness. That’s true friendship. -Ford