Face in the Crowd

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes listeners to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It''s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn''t be at the ballgame, shouldn''t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers''s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier