Summary

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping thriller novella about a college football player's investigation into the unsolved disappearance of a local legend who seemingly vanished into thin air.

Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, the most legendary player on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown.
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Instead of tossing the ball to the referee after his near-mythical athletic feat or celebrating with the nearly 25,000 spectators in the stands, Ruggles continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led deep underneath the field to the Mighty Johns' locker room--and was never seen again.

His disappearance has mystified the community for decades . . . until another player--Merlin North, a brilliant physics major--helps break Ruggles's record for kickoff returns. After that, North turns detective and becomes fixated on discovering what happened to Herschel Ruggles .

Investigating Ruggles's mysterious disappearance, however, will prove unexpectedly dangerous for North, as evidence of murder--and ghostly visions--reveal the truth to be far more stunning than he ever could have anticipated.

Includes a teaser for A Gambling Man , David Baldacci's second Archer novel--​available now!