The Eleventh Man
by Ivan Doig

Summary

A legend in Montana football history, TSU's 1941 starting lineup charged through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's various lonely and dangerous theaters.

The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. He is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates, man by man, for publication in small-town newspapers across the country like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, not knowing that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed.

A deeply American story, The Eleventh Man has been called Ivan Doig's most powerful novel to date.

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Praise

"Vividly evokes a prior time and way of being. It takes a serious view of war and the practitioners of war, and looks hard at the meaning of heroism." — The Washington Post

"The Eleventh Man is about loyalty and survival and sacrifice - and love - and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout." — author Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent

About the Author

Ivan Doig, born in 1939, grew up along the rugged rims of the Rocky Mountains in Montana. His father was a ranch hand, and his mother a ranch cook who succumbed to her life-long asthma when Ivan was six. Ivan's life was formed among the sheepherders and characters of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. By the time Ivan graduated with the twenty other members of his Valier, Montana class, he had made up his mind to be a writer. A recipient of a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, finalist for the 1979 National Book Award and nominee for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Doig is the author of eight previous novels and three acclaimed works of nonfiction. He lives in Seattle.

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