"It is as good a read as [The Greatest Player] and a must for golf aficionados."...
| Dave Lagarde
| The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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“Golf’s Literary Rookie of the Year. In The Greatest Player Who Never Lived, readers are introduced to a golfer just elusive enough to be believed. And to be revered as a mythical cult figure.”...
| Dave Anderson
| New York Times
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“Solid as a shot that nestles up to the cup from a 3-wood distance. It takes the reader back to a time and place that shaped the game…a golf whodunit, southern style.”...
| Pat Sullivan
| San Francisco Chronicle
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“A powerful wind storm knocked out electricity throughout the Seattle area on Sunday, as well as the broadcast of the Indianapolis-Tennessee football game. So I grabbed the manuscript of [The Greatest...
| Dan Raley
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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“I was fortunate enough to know Bobby Jones, “Bob” to his friends, so perhaps I derived an extra dollop of satisfaction out of The Greatest Player Who Never Lived. But if you have ever played just one...
| Edwin Pope
| Miami Herald
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“A page-turning mix of golf history and mystery, almost as if John Grisham played 18 holes with Bagger Vance and decided to write about their day together.”...
| T.R. Reinman
| San Diego Union-Tribune
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“(J. Michael Veron) proves a master of fiction.”...
| Mike Snider
| USA Today
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“If you like your golf history, and the love of the game spiced up with a bit of murder and Bobby Jones, this is for you. I guarantee it.”...
| Furman Bisher
| Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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“Skillfully written, Beau Stedman leaps off the pages and becomes one of the game’s greatest players.”...
| Mike James
| Los Angeles Times
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"Who's to say Beau Stedman, or someone like him, didn't exist? He's the "Shoeless Joe" of golf. This all makes perfect sense, which is why as you're reading you keep asking yourself: "Why not?" A firs...
| Tom Hoffarth
| LA Daily News
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"If you've ever wondered what would happen if you locked John Grisham and George Plimpton in a room - and who among us hasn't? This is it…"...
| Gary Nuhn
| Dayton Daily News
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"On the other hand, "The Greatest Course That Never Was" is pure fiction -- yet seems eerily real. Written by J. Michael Veron, the author who fooled many of us into believing "The Greatest Player Wh...
| Lee Tyler
| GolfWeb
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"The book gives us history and mystery in the same dose. It had more turns than a 30-foot putt at Augusta, that I got to wondering along the way if it weren't true."...
| Blaine Newnham
| Seattle Times
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Golf, mystery, sports history, happy ending
By Linda Wills
Columnist for Rockwall County News
If golf is your game, if mystery is your p...
| Linda Wills
| Rockwall County News
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The Caddie
Without a caddie, most golfers would be lost. Sure, his job is to carry his player's clubs, but it's much more than that. He needs to know each and every course like his o...
| David Winkler-Schmit
| The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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For those who firmly believe that a great novel lies somewhere in the recesses of their mind, J. Michael Veron may be an inspiration. Veron, a Louisiana attorney, did not publish his first novel until...
| Stuart Shiffman
| BookReporter.com
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Shell Game: One Family's Long Battle Against Big Oil
Legal narratives pitting the hero against a malicious corporation are not in short supply, but trial lawyer Veron adds an environmental twist as...
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| Publisher's Weekly
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Shell Game: The True Story of One Family's Battle Against Big Oil.
Between 1961 and 1981, Shell Oil held surface leases on Louisiana property owned by four relatives of attorney and novelist Vernon...
| Ilse Heidman
| Library Journal
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