Steve Simmons

Event Info: Great Books Marquee at 3:00 PM

Steve Simmons is one of Canada’s best known and most provocative sports columnists. His column appears regularly in the Toronto Sun and other Sun Media and QMI publications. His signature Sunday notes column has been called “the most read page in Canadian journalism.” Author of the bestselling Lanny and contributor to eight other books, Simmons appears regularly on TSN’s The Reporters with Dave Hodge and That’s Hockey 2Nite on TSN2. A minor-hockey enthusiast and long-time coach, Simmons lives outside Toronto with his wife, Sheila, and sons, Jeffrey and Michael.

Books

The Lost Dream

Mike Jefferson wasn’t the only Canadian boy who dreamed of making it to the NHL, and his parents aren’t the first to do whatever was in their power to make their child’s dream come true. But somehow, what started as a fantasy turned a promising young hockey player’s career into a harrowing crime story. The parents may never know what exactly happened to make their son veer from everything they had hoped for, but they know whom to blame: coach and agent David Frost. Frost fast-tracked Jefferson’s route to the NHL at a staggering cost. Along the way, the affable young man turned against his parents, changed his last name to Danton, and descended into a spiral of paranoia, violence, and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Veteran hockey journalist Steve Simmons digs beneath the surface of this story to answer questions that have left Canadians shocked and fascinated. Fast-paced, gripping, and full of insight into the game, The Lost Dream reveals the dark side of the national sport we love so much.

Viking Canada - $32.00 – Non-fiction/Sport/Crime