#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a national laughingstock. Cut by the Cleveland Browns, and shunned by every other team, Rick insists that his agent find a team that does need him.
Against enormous odds, Rick lands a job—as the starting quarterback for the...

The unique nature of combat in the South Pacific during World War II took place against a vast, beautiful, sometimes romantic, often forbidding world, largely unknown to most Americans. Travel with a young naval lieutenant (and future historical novelist) named James Michener to explore the cultural clash within the region.