Ranked by Sports Illustrated among the top 25 sports books of all time, North Dallas Forty is a fictional account of eight harrowing days in the life of a professional football player. Peter Gent played five seasons as a wide receiver with the Dallas Cowboys. He draws on that experience to tell a devastating story about life inside the National Football League. It is a world of booze, drugs, sex, idolatry and savagery, and a world turned upside down by Gent in this powerful story of fraternity, cruelty, love and pain. In what S.I. called a "darkly funny novel," Gent depicts football as a game without conscience played by tormented men who live each day as if it were their last.

To celebrate the book's 30th anniversary, this edition includes an introductory essay by Gent in which he reminisces about the game of his youth and speaks bluntly about what the NFL has become today.

Peter Gent turned to writing after a five-year career with the Dallas Cowboys. He is the author of seven books, including the novels The Franchise (1983) and The Conquering Heroes (1993). His most recent book was The Last Magic Summer: A Season with My Son (1996).

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