Hook and Ladder: a play by Benn Farrell, (Paperback)

<p>Hot shot sports writer Dunkin Scott's career is on the rise as the top reporter at Sports Review Monthly magazine. His readership is at an all-time high and is a frequent guest on major sports radio and television networks.</p><p>As if things couldn't be going better for him, Dunkin is about to get the opportunity of a lifetime when he is assigned to an exclusive interview with future Hall of Fame football linebacker Tony Backlund, the writer's childhood sports hero.</p><p><b>However, Dunkin soon finds himself pressured by his publisher Rachel Montgomery to spotlight the gridiron great and humanitarian as a fraud because Backlund had taken a knee during the U.S. national anthem at a playoff game six months prior. </b>Quickly, Dunkin finds himself struggling to write what is fair and truthful to his sports hero after he begins to find a disconnect of facts involving Backlund's abrupt and mysterious retirement as well as his on-field protest.</p><p><b>The play culminates into a mess of journalistic malpractice, unworthy ideology and Dunkin caught at a cross roads to decide what kind of journalist, sports fan and person he wants to be.</b></p>

• Hook and Ladder: a play by Benn Farrell, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798265666901
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-09-16
• Page Count: 94