Play Dirty

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Victor Slezak

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Deadly consequences ensue when an eccentric millionaire, crippled in a tragic accident, hires a fallen football hero (and ex-con) to impregnate his wife.

Griff Burkett was a school-of-hard-knocks kid, abandoned by his mother, adopted by his high-school football coach. Under his tutelage, Griff earned a scholarship to play college ball and then a multimillion-dollar contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Griff had a good heart, but his Achilles heel was his arrogance, and his gambling. At the end of his career, deep in debt, a local organized-crime kingpin offers him a chance to resolve his loans by throwing a game. Griff agrees, and walks straight into an FBI sting.

After serving time, Griff finds only closed doors. Then he is summoned to the mansion of eccentric millionaire airline owner Foster Speakman. Speakman, a recluse since a car accident left him crippled, is impotent. He offers Griff half a million dollars to impregnate his wife Laura, discreetly, and with manifold rules. One of which is, if Griff succeeds, he will leave town and never see his child as long as he lives.

Griff has few options. He's still hounded by Detective Stanley Rodarte, who organized the gambling sting, and seems set upon ruining Griff's life. Griff has little means of earning a living, no family, and few friends. So he agrees - only to quickly realize he's been set up.

©2007 Sandra Brown Management, Ltd (P)2007 Simon and Schuster Inc

Critic reviews

"The tension builds as lust, greed, pride, wrath and envy threaten to undo everyone in this tightly told tale of modern temptation." ( Publishers Weekly)

Lots of twists and turns.

Loved it! Would recommend to anyone who loves a romance with twists and turns. Would read another like it.

Another Sandra Brown Winner!

I wasn't prepared to love this book because pro ball and all the folderol about it isn't my cup of tea. However, this book was so much more. Thank goodness we were spared the first trial and the book starts when a guy is released from prison. Many unexpected plots and subplots. Loved it. I would have enjoyed slightly less sex narration as well as re-hashes by main protagonists. That the wunderkind business-savvy main character didn't have sense enough to say she wanted a lawyer from the get-go was beyond my believability level. But still a five star rating.

Great Book!

This book made me get on my treadmill every morning because I couldn't wait to see what happened next.

Nice flow to the story

I could hardly tell that a book about a football player was written by a woman. Nice escape from the day to day.

Loved the voice

Great book - doesn’t start with the usual murder but intriguing and suspenseful. Loved the voice of the narrator.

Average story, but not overwhelming

Would you try another book from Sandra Brown and/or Victor Slezak?

Definitely yes. I am a big fan of S.B., but this book just was not a favorite of mine..

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I just did not feel much for any of the characters.... Maybe the characters needed to be built up more.... Even the romance was just well... There.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes

Do you think Play Dirty needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

No I just really would not be that interested

Read it !!

I wasn't sure about it based on the description, but I loved this book. Certainly suggest

Great Biok

love Sandra Brown. Will definitely download more. You can't stop listening. would recommend to many others.

Eight out of ten in scoring Sandra's books.

Play Dirty rates an eight out of ten in Sandra's long list of great reads. Envy was a 10. As usual, enough surprises to keep even the laziest reader reading. She is also one of the sexiest writers out there. Sandra's characters ooze sex, but she is really talking about the human condition and love. Reminds me why I got married and why I am still in love with my wife 45 years later. Thank you Sandra. It's a good read.

Great book

Awesome, great book! Couldn't stop listening! LOVE Sandra Brown!
I liked the narrator as well!