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Out on a limb, the world’s eyes are on him...

All he wanted to do was play but now Dmitriy Lebedev is out, the game is way bigger. The fans, the press, his teammates and those closest to him are all getting stuck in but even in the brightest shirts, it’s difficult to tell whose side they are on.  

As the game struggles with his existence and he fights off challenges from all angles trying to take possession of his narrative, the question becomes less about whether he can help the Weavers right the wrong of last campaign and more about whether he can make it to the end of this one in one piece.

Under the clouds of the societal storm swirling around the talented playmaker, disturbing managerial rivalries deepen, and players are pushed into evermore desperate positions as the costs of the vile acts that got the story rolling emerge.

Following on from FOUL, Arton James’s hard-hitting football novel, TARGET MAN: The First Half is book one of an epic two-volume story about a season the likes of which we have never seen.