description: Neil Garvin is a seventeen year old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team &amp; as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime &amp; his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives &amp; begins to narrow in, Neil &amp; his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart &amp; set them free
language: English
title: Diamond Dogs
titlecomplete: Diamond Dogs
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Mystery
ratings_count: 336
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Little Brown and Company