Jake Goodman landed his dream job as Sports Information Director at Lincoln State University, and the school's football team is having the best season in history. What could go wrong? Jake soon learns that college football can be murder. Two people are dead and the police have closed the case. But Jake suspects there's a cover-up. His suspicions soon put him - and those close to him - on a collision course with the real killer. From Midwest Book Review, December 2011: "Slaying Season is an interesting and recommended mystery, not to be missed."

FROM THE KIRKUS REVIEW... "A grim 2025 comes to life in James Laabs timely utopian thriller. Just over a decade into the future, the USA has succumbed to rule by a tiny, extremely wealthy fraction of the population. After winning election in fall of 2012, America's elite turned their chosen politicians into little more than puppets. Elections are rigged, states are fractured, homosexuals are institutionalized and the vast non-elite is divided between government wage-slaves and unemployed squatters.... "Laabs' eerily plausible shadow-America is an engaging environment for any reader to...