Bøger af Michael Silver

When Kyle Shanahan became the NFL's youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn't justify his position by providing the unassailable reasoning behind it, he was told to get the hell out of Shanahan's office. Shanahan and the members of his coaching tree-including Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Raheem Morris, and Matt LaFleur-came up in a sport where innovation was the exception, not the rule. There had been brilliant football minds before, from Paul Brown to Bill Walsh to Bill Belichick. But for the most part, coaches learned a particular system and stuck to it no matter what-no matter the players on their team, no matter what the opponent might do.This group of young coaches would change all that. The Why Is Everything is the story of old dogmas falling before astonishingly creative new strategies and game plans. Drawing on unmatched access across the league, longtime NFL reporter Mike Silver takes us into the key moments in this still-unfolding revolution, from the education of Mike Shanahan, Kyle's father and a two-time Super Bowl champion, in the 1980s; to the Washington Redskins' football laboratory in the early 2010s, where the coaches first worked together, shocking the league with their cutting-edge scheme for rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III; to McVay's Super Bowl victory in 2022 and Kyle Shanahan's Super Bowl agony in 2019 and 2024.Less than a decade after their emergence, these men are the stars of their profession and have helped propel the NFL to new heights of viewership and drama. With The Why Is Everything, Silver reveals how it all happened, and in the process gives us a timeless account of friendship, rivalry, and the never-ending pursuit of perfection.

Once again the Ookie Brothers Detective Agency has been called upon to solve an intriguing and complex crime. This time it's fact not fiction as an unsolved crime in the record books of Hilton Head, SC. It all begins when three twelve-year old boys, spending the summer with one boy's grandparents, determine they want to solve the mystery. Grandpa and Grandma turn to their friends Sherlock Pookie, Dr. Mookie and Geeky Dookie for help. These famous dog detectives take you from the famous lighthouse at Harbour Town to the Washington Monument to our Mexican neighbors to figure out the surprise ending to the mystery. This is Mr. Silver's second Ookie Brothers detective mystery; the first book is entitled The Case of the Vengeful Veterinarian. In a letter to Mr. Silver the editor said the following, "This is definitely another fun and charming book about the Ookie's... once again, the tone and style of this book made for delightful reading. I don't know if it's their silly names, their uncanny ability to solve crimes or the way the writing makes them seem to leap off the page, but the Ookie Brothers are nothing short of great fun.

If you love surprise, even shocking endings to a mystery, Dying To Live, will take you to that place.Four young adults, traveling alone on four different cruise ships, in four different parts of the world, disappear mid-sea and ocean, in the middle of the night within weeks of each other. Local, national, even international investigative authorities can find no clues whatsoever to these vanished three women and one man, who did not know each other and had no background difficulties. Was it suicide, homicide or coincidence? The cruise ship owners and especially the families of these victims want to find out. With the help of a renowned criminologist, they attempt to gain the help of three retired detective brothers who in past years took on these kind of unsolvable cases and solved them. But they have lived extremely secluded lives for several years on an exclusive private island, and regardless of the pressure to take on previous cases they've refused to resurrect their work.But the pressure to solve this unusual case may be too great even for them and the Mason Brothers may not be able to refuse these fascinating circumstances that turn out to be the ultimate mystery.