Troy White can predict a play before it happens. Star quarterback on his state football team, Troyâs a natural for the 7-on-7 tournament thatâs being held at the Super Bowl in Miami. With any luck, his âfootball geniusâ will also be working for the Atlanta Falcons on that big day.
Ty Lewis is a wide receiver with exceptional speed. His brother, an NFL star, says getting on a 7-on-7 team will prove Tyâs a winner.
From the moment the two football champs cross paths, Troy and Ty begin to size each other up. Troy is suspicious of Tyâs interest in his friend Tate, while Ty worries his speed will never be a match for Troyâs game smarts. But when the two rivals find themselves somehow tangled in the same dangerous web of deceit, they discover that they have more in common than their skill at football.
Uniting Troy, first seen in the New York Times bestselling Football Genius, and Ty, who was chased by the Mafia in Football Hero, Tim Greenâs Deep Zone delivers it allâvivid settings, dynamic characters, and high-stakes action on and off the field.
Tim Green, for many years a star defensive end with the Atlanta Falcons, is a man of many talents. He's the author of such gripping books for adults as the New York Times bestselling The Dark Side of the Game and American Outrage. Tim graduated covaledictorian from Syracuse University and was a first-round draft pick. He later earned his law degree with honors, and he has also worked as an NFL commentator for FOX Sports and NPR.His first book for young readers, Football Genius, inspired in part by his players and his own kids, became a New York Times bestseller and was followed by Football Hero, Football Champ, The Big Time, and Deep Zone. He drew on his experiences playing and coaching Little League for Rivals and Pinch Hit and two more New York Times bestsellers: Baseball Great and Best of the Best.Bestselling author Jon Scieszka called Tim Green's Unstoppable, a book about a boy's struggle with cancer that debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, "Absolutely heroic. And something every guy should read.âTim Green lives with his wife, Illyssa, and their five children in upstate New York.