Teammates

by Jack Erickson

Overview

Short Story

Former high school football teammates meet at a wedding ten years after a violent tackle on the football field crippled one. 

The crippled teammate, whose promising tennis career was ruined, is a bartender at the wedding reception. His teammate is the arrogant, drunken groom.

Revenge becomes a deadly wedding present.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153570075
Publisher:	RedBrick Press
Publication date:	10/09/2016
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	230 KB

About the Author

Jack Erickson writes in multiple genres: international thrillers, mysteries, true crime, short mysteries, and romantic suspense. 

He is currently writing a series of international thrillers based in Milan featuring the anti-terrorism police, DIGOS, at Milan's Questura (police headquarters). Book I in the series is "Thirteen Days in Milan." The sequel, "No One Sleeps," was published in 2016. Book 3, "Vesuvius Nights," was published in 2019.

Erickson's models for his thrillers are based on three popular Italian mystery series: Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti in Venice, Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano in Sicily, and Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen in Rome. All three have been produced as TV series at either BBC, PBS, RAI, or Deutsche Welle

Erickson travels throughout Italy for research and sampling Italian contemporary life and culture. In earlier careers, he was a U.S. Senate speechwriter, Washington-based editor, and RedBrick Press publisher. He wrote and published several books on emerging craft brewing industry including the award winning "Star Spangled Beer: A Guide to America's New Microbreweries and Brewpubs."

Before he began writing fiction, he was a wealth manager for a national brokerage in Silicon Valley.