Meet the Author
Richard “Dick” Groves is retired from a thirty-eight-year career in Navy and private practice dentistry.
A lifelong football fan, his debut novel combines his love of the sport and his passion for writing crime suspense and mystery. THE HIDDEN GAME explores an ongoing controversy with the sport and how one man must decide how much he is willing to risk and how this will change him.
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THE HIDDEN GAME is an intriguing, suspenseful sports crime novel which asks the question: What if professional football is not just a game but a massive reality show, carefully orchestrated for maximum controversy, ratings and profit?
Tony Stravnicki is an old school, life is black and white, assistant coach who lives for the game, often to the detriment of his family. After a difficult loss, he is fed up and suspicious about the number of controversial calls against his players which change the outcomes of games. Is it his coaching, bad luck or something else? He intends to find out whether “We’re being played”.