High school older point safeguard Jonas Dolan is on the fasttrack to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his upcoming on theline.

Levi was simple, like a kid. It was the best thingabout him, and it had been the worst, as well.

When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is gladto meet Levi, a good, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspensebuilds such as a slow drumbeat as readers start to smell a rat in Ryan Hartwell, acharismatic basketball coach and sexual predator. When Levi reluctantly tellsJonas that Hartwell abused him, Jonas has to decide whether he should risk hisfuture career to statement the coach.

Pitch-perfect basketball has, well-developedcharacters, and great storytelling get this to heartbreaking psychological sportsnovel a slam dunk.