They say pro wrestling is fake, but it’s about to get very real in this “brilliant” crime thriller (Mick Foley). New York City, 1969: Danno Garland is a middling member of the National Wrestling Council, a secretive syndicate of pro-wrestling promoters. He’s kept his head down for fifteen years, but now he’s found a new heavyweight champion, Babu, and plans to use him to build a wrestling empire. Blocked, though, by the NWC, Danno makes a deal with Florida boss Proctor King to ensure Danno’s man will be the next title holder. In exchange, the belt will go to Proctor’s son, Gilbert, once he’s out of prison in a couple of years. But things don’t go according to plan, and now Danno is standing in a sold-out Shea Stadium on the night of the biggest wrestling card of all time, and neither Babu nor Gilbert has shown up. Meanwhile, Danno’s driver is walking dazedly from the overturned van that was supposed to bring them to the venue, and the only sign of Gilbert is his foot. Across the country, Proctor nervously watches the show on TV, wondering why his screwup son doesn’t already have the championship belt in his hands. It’s taken four years of payoffs, double dealing, and bone-breaking to arrange this match, and if all that’s gone to waste, he might just have to take a business trip to New York . . . “Entertaining . . . a solidly plotted mystery—more than enough to put readers on the alert for the next Danno Garland book." —Booklist “A one-of a kind literary offering for die-hard wrestling fans.” —Rolling Stone “Shades of Mario Puzo, Elmore Leonard, and Michael Connelly. The action is relentless, the characters are shady, and the justice is swift and final.” —Eoin Colfer, New York Times-bestselling author of Plugged