Steve Brewer follows the stunning success of his comic Bubba Mabry, P.I. mysteries with End Run, the start of the new hard-hitting Drew Gavin series.

Drew Gavin has seen better days. Once a star defensive end for the University of New Mexico, he is now reduced to jaded commentary from the sidelines as a sportswriter for the Albuquerque Gazette. But Drew is suddenly reminded of his glory days when he encounters his long-lost college sweetheart, Helen Graham, at a homecoming game. Helen approaches Drew with a problem and an awkward request: her husband, Freddie, is in debt to an intimidating bookie named Three Eyes Sanchez. Could Drew buy Freddie more time?

Drew's yearning for what-might-have-been lures him to satisfy the old flame. He is soon exploded out of his familiar newsroom and into an animated underworld of dingy back-door betting dens and sleek highrise offices. Here, Drew discovers more then he wants to know about Freddie's gambling debts and the corrupt behind-the-scenes business of proffesional sports. And when a murderer creeps into this menacing world ruled by the gun, Drew must confront shady bookies, powerful businessmen, creepy killers, preying journalists, and the ghosts of his own past. Though his colleagues from the Gazette moblize, trying simultaneously to protect one of their own and break the big story, murder's momentum outpaces the headlines and drags drew in it's bloody slipstream.

For Drew to survive he must overpower the relentless grip of revenge and the dominion of big money that are skewing justice. He must make a head-on tackle against a fast-paced end run and save his life.