Colorado Blue Spruce Award Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, VA..
Grisham lives with his wife Renee and their two children Ty and Shea.
The Innocent Man (October 2006) marks his first foray into non-fiction.
About the Author: Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, and The Broker ) and all of them have become international bestsellers.
To say that Italy--the land of opera, fine wines, extremely small cars, romance, and Football Americano -- holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.
He knows nothing about Parma--not even where it is--has never been to Europe, and doesn\'t speak or understand a word of Italian.
So Rick reluctantly agrees to play for the Panthers--at least until a better offer comes along--and heads off to Italy.
Yes, Italians do play American football, to one degree or another, and the Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player--any former NFL player--at their helm.
Great, says Rick--for which team? The mighty Panthers of Parma, Italy.
Against enormous odds Arnie finally locates just such a team and informs Rick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a starting quarterback.
But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent, Arnie, find a team that needs him.
Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams.
With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL.
In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game.
Colorado Blue Spruce Award Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns
