The Charm Spinner (Paperback)

In 1963, at a Southern university when the color line is just beginning to break, a black, bright and handsome star football player catches the attention of a charismatic, popular white professor. Steadily the professoras interest in the athlete grows into an obsession. But the athlete is focused elsewhere, on a lovely and disarming waif he has met who introduces him to new radical elements on the campus. She brings him gently by the hand to a counterculture of drugs and free love. The football star is no match for the power of these strange passions and the rip-tide jealousies he encounters. They begin to consume him. They plague him. His life is turned upside down. Only a grizzly murder can set him free.