Guy Finelli as The Safety, a Super Hero on and off the Football Field, is Fabulous Fiction for the Fall season!
The murder of Washington All-Pro Safety Sean Taylor in 2007 devastates Guy Finelli at the age of thirteen, dreaming to become a football athlete like Taylor.
The Safety is a dramatic, soul-stirring look at a young athlete's attempt at stardom, as Guy Finelli tries to break free from his past mistakes and fulfill a family legacy of football greatness.
Months of depression leads to Guy's involvement with pot-smoking friends, who then decide to fund their hard-partying ways by selling to area students. Calling themselves the Northeast Consortium, the group comes to rely unknowingly on a vicious Baltimore mobster known as "The Turk" for their supply.
Despite his fall, Guy never entirely forgets his dream of one day playing football. With the help of family and a good friend, he makes the decision to leave drugs and dedicate himself to football. As he prepares for his return to the game he loves, Guy is confronted by the FBI to help dismantle the new flow of cocaine into the County schools. When "The Turk" discovers that Guy Finelli is the source to the FBI, he vows to make his life miserable.
Can Guy Finelli out run his past drug world and tragedy in his life to become the greatest defensive player and champion in football history and help rebuild a community? The Safety takes you on a journey of the past, present and future world of hard hitting football and beyond.
Author P. Edmund Fischetti follows up his first novel, Big Train's Backyard, with another great fictional Finelli family story. The Safety taps into the excitement that makes football America's most popular and beloved sport.
About the Author: P. Edmund Fischetti was born in Washington DC and raised in the suburb of Kensington, MD. He attended Walter Johnson High School and the University of Maryland. He earned a BA in Criminology and a MS in Family Studies. He currently lives in Silver Spring, MD, just east of Kensington, with his wife of 29 years and two young adult children. He still is very active in sports, playing softball and swinging golf clubs. Washington area professional sports teams and the University of Maryland teams are his favorites to follow intently since the early sixties.
His first book Big Train's Backyard was written in 2012 and published in March 2013. His current book The Safety was written in 2012-14 and published in July 2015. Both are based on the fictional Finelli family and the athletic greatness of half-brothers Alex in baseball and Guy in football.
The Author had three distinct careers before entering full-time writing in 2012. The first was a seventeen period that included being a youth counselor out of college, and then becoming a clinical psychotherapist after graduate school, working mainly in family therapy. The second career involved a ten year period of co-owning and managing a supply business of finishing products to cabinet makers and furniture refinishers. The third career was a ten year period in the real estate business selling and rebuilding houses.
He has spent most of the past four winters in their condo on the beach in Cape Canaveral, Florida walking on the sand, swimming in the ocean, playing golf, going to spring training games and watching the occasional space lift-off. Each day finding inspiration seeing the sun rising, hearing the crashing waves, feeling the storms rolling through and smelling the night air as moon crosses the sky.
