You take a guy like Jay Billis, who was on the 1986 Duke team that lost to Louisville. Jay's a big TV star now, with a beautiful wife, two beautiful kids, makes a lot of money, he's got everything you could want in life. But he doesn't have that national championship, and he still, to this day, thinks back on that night and second-guesses plays and wonders if he could have done this or that.
Journalist Dan Fesperman's third novel centers on a reporter who sends himself into one of the world's most volatile places in an effort to reclaim a dying career. But what he gets into soon looms much larger than just a career move.
You take a guy like Jay Billis, who was on the 1986 Duke team that lost to Louisville. Jay's a big TV star now, with a beautiful wife, two beautiful kids, makes a lot of money, he's got everything you could want in life. But he doesn't have that national championship, and he still, to this day, thinks back on that night and second-guesses plays and wonders if he could have done this or that. 
