The Eleventh Man

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup made Montana football history, charging 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 11th man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. Man by man, he is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates for small-town newspapers across the country, like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, little dreaming that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and put to the 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 is Ivan Doig's most powerful novel to date.©2008 Ivan Doing (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Another Doig masterpiece

A lot of research done for this one - narrator is fantastic. There is a lot of "flavor" in this story. I'll be listening to it again someday

Stick with it. It’s worth it!

I’m not generally interested in football or war so I only stuck with this book at the start because I trust the author and the narrator is superb. I’m so glad I did. Excellent!

Master plot builder

Amazing character development and continuity with the whole two medicine country . I drop into a deep flow space and the pages fly by with all of Mr Doig’s novels-some of my favorite books over many years

good book

I'm from montana and my father was a WW11 veteran i did enjoy this book. The narrator was very good and kept my interest. I would listen to him again.

Great story

Another great read from Ivan Doig. The story has great research of history intertwined with a great story.