The Detective
Scott Sigler, Matt WallaceTHE DETECTIVE is a novella from the Galactic Football League (GFL) series. The far-future GFL universe combines star-spanning scifi, gritty crime and hard-hitting sports action. It has been described as THE BLIND SIDE meets THE GODFATHER meets STAR WARS.
THE DETECTIVE showcases the story of Frederico Esteban Guiseppe Gonzaga, the secretive private investigator known to most people only as "Fred." Fred has been hired to find the history of the family of Quentin Barnes, the quarterback of the Ionath Krakens. A simple search of records quickly throws Fred into the fire, and carries him across the galaxy from the Purist Nation to the Planetary Union to the Quyth Concordia.
This novella place from roughly March 2683, to March 2684. Where applicable, the chapters are named to map to the action in THE ALL-PRO (Book III in the GFL series). The story actually begins, however, on unknown dates during GFL Book II, THE STARTER.
In terms of the GFL timeline, THE DETECTIVE runs from roughly Week Seven of the 2683 regular season in THE STARTER through Week Ten of the 2684 regular season in THE ALL-PRO.
This novella is part of the Galactic Football League series, which is described as THE BLIND SIDE meets THE GODFATHER meets STAR WARS.