#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRick Dockery is the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.

In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually gets into the game.

With a seventeen-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provides what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL.

Overnight, he becomes a national laughingstockand is immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams.But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him.

Against enormous odds, Rick finally gets a jobas the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers . . . of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL playerany former NFL playerat their helm. And now they've got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is) and doesn't speak a word of Italian.

To say that Italythe land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and football americanoholds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators.