Bill Belichick is one of the titans of today’s game of football. Now, sports commentator and bestselling author Michael Holley follows three NFL teams—the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons—from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Belichick’s influence on the game. This one-of-a-kind exploration takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with unprecedented insider access to...

The story of the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of its finest organizationAfter a hundred "cursed" years, the Boston Red Sox rose gloriously to baseball domination. Under the leadership of manager Terry Francona, an extraordinary team of wildly disparate personalities—from the inscrutable Manny Ramirez to the affable David "Big Papi" Ortiz—pulled off two improbable post-season comebacks to make it to the World Series twice in three years . . . and ultimately emerg...

New York Times bestselling sportswriter Michael Holley takes readers behind the scenes of the relationship that transformed the Patriots from a middling franchise to the envy of the NFL.No head coach-quarterback pair has been more successful in NFL history than Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. They have won four Super Bowls, six AFC championships, and thirteen division titles. And now Holley takes us inside their r...

New York Times bestselling sportswriter Michael Holley takes readers behind the scenes of the relationship that transformed the Patriots from a middling franchise to the envy of the NFL.No head coach-quarterback pair has been more successful in NFL history than Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. They have won four Super Bowls, six AFC championships, and thirteen division titles. And now Holley takes us inside their r...

****Selected by the Wall Street Journal among the Best Sports Books of 2021**A New York Times bestselling sportswriter tells the inside story of how three star players joined together to form the most dominant team in basketball and lead the Boston Celtics to their first championship in more than two decades.**The first of "The Big Three" was Paul Pierce. As Boston Celtics fans watched the team retire Pierce's jersey in a ...

The New York Times bestseller "for devoted New England fans or those interested in the makings of a professional football organization" ( Boston Globe ).When Bill Belichick arrived in New England, the Patriots were a laughingstock, an organization with a losing record and a roster of overpaid, underperforming players. So how did a head coach with a questionable record transform ...

Bill Belichick is one of the titans of today's game of football. Now, sports commentator and bestselling author Michael Holley follows three NFL teams—the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons—from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Belichick's influence on the game. This one-of-a-kind exploration takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with unprecedented insider access to...

A New York Times bestselling sportswriter tells the inside story of how three star players joined together to form the most dominant team in basketball and lead the Boston Celtics to their first championship in more than two decades.The first of "The Big Three" was Paul Pierce. As Boston Celtics fans watched the team retire Pierce's jersey in a ceremony on February 11, 2018, they remembered again the incredible performances Pierce put on in the city for fi...

In the Land of the Handless, where people have adapted to live fully without hands, the one-handed monarch Michaelle must defend their kingdom against three monstrous threats: Anansi the spider who steals voices, Gickey the toad-drake whose fog numbs feet and legs, and Jasper the basilisk whose venom corrupts touch into fear and shatters trust. Drawing on the wisdom inherited from their parents—the One-Eyed King who sees truth and the One-Eared Queen who hears the heart—Michaelle leads the...

In a kingdom where difference is law, King Aris rules without a tongue, communicating through meaningful hums. Queen Lyra possesses one nostril, reading the world through faint scents. Their people are divided by nature—some scentless but vocal, others mute but sensitive—yet united under rulers who prove that missing senses are simply different languages.When three monsters attack—the Empusa stealing voices, the Cercopes poisoning smell, and the Catoblepas twisting sight—the kingdo...

In the Land of the Scentless, Princess Althea's single nostril makes her the kingdom's most precious asset. Her people communicate through a beautiful language of colored scarves, waving messages on the wind. But when three monsters attack—Stymphalian Birds poisoning their dye-pits, a Cyclops whose beam bleaches color from their scarves, and Quetzalcoatl whose song steals their will—their vibrant language begins to die.Inspired by the proverb about the one-eyed man in the land of t...

In the Land of the Deaf, Queen Elara’s single ear makes her the kingdom’s most vital listener. When three monsters—a Wendigo, a mermaid, and a gremlin—attack, they shatter the citizens' way of life by breaking their hands to destroy sign language.Inspired by the proverb about the one-eyed man in the land of the blind, the story shows how a limitation can become a strength. Faced with silence, Elara leads her people to invent a new language of glances and stomps. They devise clever ...