Title: Diamond Dogs
First published: 2000
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 & 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 & his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives & begins to narrow in, Neil & his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart & set them free
Subjects: Teenage boys, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Sheriffs, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Nevada, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Murder
Places: Nevada
LC classification: PR9199.3.W3796 D5 2000