Book info

• Title The Final Play
• Author David Baldacci
• Year 2021
• Genre Thriller

Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, a legend on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown in front of 25,000 spectators. Ruggles, instead of celebrating, continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led under the field. He was never seen again. His disappearance had mystified the community for decades until another player, brilliant physics major, Merlin North, turns detective and becomes fixated on discovering what happened to Herschel Ruggles. As North’s investigation deepens, he uncovers evidence which suggests that dark forces played a hand in Ruggles’ fate, revealing a truth even more extraordinary than he could ever have anticipated.

Thoughts

This is a short novella from David Baldacci, and at first I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it, but it did grow on me as the mystery started to unravel. Two college football players start looking into the death of a superstar player from a previous generation, and the answers end up being much closer to home than you would think. Not bad for a short read.

Rating: 3 / 5