Books by Jim Patton and Complete Book Reviews
Jim Patton, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (249p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0737-9
Sex, drugs and blackmail in the NBA! This hard-driving, jive-talking debut thriller by an award-winning Portland, Ore., sportswriter (Rookie: When Michael Jordan Came to the Minor Leagues) has about as many head fakes and high fives as a Michael...
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Jim Patton, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-86849-9
Ostensibly about basketball in Italy, this book is really about Patton, a sportswriter for Willamette Week in Oregon. He spent the 1992-1993 Fall season in Italy, where a number of American basketball players have put in one or more years with the...
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Jim Patton, Author . Forge $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0649-4
In the three years since his ace debut, The Shake, Patton has sharpened his already considerable thriller skills. His second crime novel is an outrageously sad, mordantly hilarious story of love gone wrong. When Max Travis (a Portland, Ore.,...
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