Deep In Deep Zone

Authors note: I wrote this essay on Deep Zone by Tim Green to prove to people why Tim Green is such a great sports writer.

What is the most surprising book you have ever read? Tim Green's book, Deep Zone., there are many surprises that keep your nose in the book. Tim Green, a retired NFL player, really creates exciting, suspenseful, and action packed sports novels. The author keeps the reader craving for more, never knowing what will happen next by creating unexpected surprises within this book.

If you’re a fan of Tim Green then you’ve read his two books Football Genius and Football Hero. In this book the two famous characters, Ty Lewis from Football Hero and Troy White from Football Genius, meet each other in this stunning novel. This is such a great idea, because many people have been awaiting sequels to both books. Many people love the fact that Tim Green is a great writer on and off the field. There’s almost a whole different story off the field or off the court and with those stories you will always be wanting more.

Tim Green can really write stunning books. Most sports book writers can’t write a very good action novel. In Deep Zone Ty is chased by gangsters who are hunting him down after his dad gave them up to the police. The other main character Troy is in search for his dad, and they both get kidnapped by the gang and Troy’s dad. A good handful of people probably pick up one of Tim Green’s books because of the cover. The cover of Tim Green’s books have sports freeze frames on it. This gets peoples attention if they like sports. Tim Green can really right a good sport and action book. It seems there’s almost three stories in this book.

The first story would obviously be the football games. The second story in the book would have to be Ty’s life outside of football, getting chased, protected by the FBI, and trying to contact his cousin Charlotte. The third one Is Troy looking for and thinking he sees his dad. You can never what’s going to happen next. A lot of people will be taken by surprise when they find out Mr. White actually is working with the gang that’s trying to get Ty. If you read a Tim Green book the saying “Never judge a book by it’s cover.”(Edwin Rolfe and Lester Fuller) really works, because you might think it’s a regular football story but it’s not. It has action in it too.

There is only one way that this book could’ve been better. Even though the idea of bringing these two great books together, Tim Green still only had Ty’s point of view. For the entire book everything was told through Ty’s eyes. There’s a book called Project 17 , by Laurie Faria Stolarz, where she took chapters and switched the point of views of the characters. There were about seven point of views in Project 17. This book could’ve been a little better if it had Troy’s point of view to know what he thought about things or just what he was doing. Even with that little flaw readers still recommend this book to their peers even if they don’t understand football all too much.

Even if you don’t know football that well you will probably be able to understand it a lot more in this book. Tim Green is good at making readers really understand what’s going on because he is a retired NFL defensive end drafted first round in 1986 by Atlanta Falcons, playing for seven years in the NFL, from 1986 to 1993. Since he had a lot of football experience he can really help the reader understand what is going on. The people that got this book because they heard about the good stories off the field can now know what is happening on the field.

Creating unexpected surprises in a book keeps the reader hooked throughout the novel because they never know what's going to happen next. Tim Green did a great job of creating suspense, not only on the field, but also off the field.