Meet James Hoak, a rising college senior whose zany escapades jeopardize his future as a national sportswriter. Can his arch-enemy football star and a legendary beach club owner save his career?

Recommended by TV sports commentator Tony Kornheiser on his podcast.

It's the month of May at Blue Ridge University, a bucolic campus nestled in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. As his friends prepare for their senior beach trip, rising senior James Hoak lands a coveted summer internship at a national weekly magazine, Sporting America -- a guaranteed pipeline to a full-time sportswriter career -- if he graduates next May.

But in a crazy mishap involving BRU's football star, Marvelavious Hall, Hoak loses every cent of his tuition money.

And Hall -- injured in the accident -- wants revenge.

Running for his life, Hoak, now broke, can't pay for his fifth year of college. And with no degree, he has no pipeline to a full-time job. He must raise eight thousand dollars in four days, before the internship begins, or his career is wrecked.

What better place to raise the cash than the coolest beach hangout on the East Coast -- with the help of his arch enemy?

While it targets young adults, this first book in the rollicking James Hoak series will satisfy all readers who enjoy binge-worthy shows like Apple TV's Ted Lasso and book characters like Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar and Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch.

"Chris Colston tells a fun, funny, breezy story of what it was like to be young... He is a master of dialogue, which tickles the ear, and the story moves in a crisp, briskly paced fashion that makes it perfect for a Netflix or streaming series. This story -- and the sequels -- are made for the screen." -- Ralph Berrier, Jr., author of If Trouble Don't Kill Me.

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