Sports Stories and Other Serious Business. Incredible stories from the award-winning sportswriter, whose fans include John Grisham and Richard Ford.

Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition.

Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Lionel Messi, he strips away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full.

Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, this book is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.

*****

'Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction.' - John Grisham