Allen Schatz: 3 books

Major league baseball umpire Marshall Connors just wants to return to the days when nobody cared about him or who he knew, when he was nothing more than an umpire, calling 'em like he saw 'em, a footnote and not a headline, when the game, baseball, was all that mattered, the days when things were...

Major league baseball umpire Marshall Connors is trying to regroup and get his life back to something resembling normal. After surviving the wrath of a psychotic revenge-hungry killer during the most recent World Series, Marshall wants nothing more than a return to the relative obscurity of his profession...

Secrets, lies, and revenge provide the sparks that ignite a fiery collision between past and present… A puzzle takes shape as baseball’s World Series unfolds, but the pieces don’t fit: a string of missing women, strange threats, gambling problems, kidnappings, and relationships long dormant...