State Champions

About the Book

"Haskell coach Will Durand is forced to use benchwarmers to finish out the regional basketball final. They pull off the biggest comeback in tournament history and the Bobcats earn a spot in the state tournament. But when the substitute star makes a disparaging remark during the post-game interview, the melee that follows results in three bitter starters and Coach Will Durand being suspended for the tournament. Assistant Coach Bill Henry takes the remaining nine players to the State Basketball Tournament and against all odds, wins the Championship. But Bill and Alice Henry are former protected witnesses and as their improbable story unfolds, small town intrigue envelops them. As the Bobcats prepare to defend their title, the Henry’s past has found them and the best efforts of friends, lovers and the combined forces of law enforcement are barely enough to avert disaster, but not enough to prevent change."

About the Author

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and artist who now writes and creates his art full time. He is the author of six books: three novels, two short story collections and The High Sky of Winter’s Shadows, an autobiographical account told in essays amassed over fifty years. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Mankato and received his Master’s Degree from California State University, Los Angeles where he taught film studies for six years. Twenty-eight of Jack’s short stories have been published in literary magazines around the world such as the Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Nazar LOOK, The View From Here and Postcards, Poems and Prose. Jack is also a talented artist whose work has appeared in more than twenty periodicals and whose acting credits include over fifty stage productions and two pretty bad films. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.