North Dallas Forty Author:Peter Gent Eight days in the life of a pro-football player. Eight days of savagery, pain, drugs, drinking, laughter, raunchy sex, and haunting love between a man and a woman you come to care about deeply. Eight days that take you into the heart of a man, a team, a sport, a game, and the raw power and violence that is America itself. The author, Peter Gent,... more » former offensive end for the Dallas Cowboys, has emerged as an astonishing writing talent.« less