Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports - Hardcover

Scorching. . . . A testament to baseball's failure. ("Newsweek")

Superb. . . . Important and disturbing. ("San Francisco Chronicle")

A compelling portrait of conspiracy. . . . Fascinating. ("The Boston Globe")

A sober, skillful and utterly damning account of not just the Bonds fiasco but the pervasive influence of steroids in sports. ("Los Angeles Times")

ÝFainaru-Wada and Williams¨ have got the goods and they reveal them methodically. Everything is well-sourced and meticulously explicated. ("Chicago Tribune")

Devastating. . . . groundbreaking. . . . Necessary reading for anyone concerned with the steroids era in baseball and track and field and its fallout on sports history. (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times")

[Fainaru-Wada and Williams] have got the goods and they reveal them methodically. Everything is well-sourced and meticulously explicated. ("Chicago Tribune")

Scorching. . . . A testament to baseballs failure. ("Newsweek")

Scorching. . . . A testament to baseballas failure. ("Newsweek")

The evidence is detailed, damning, and overwhelming. . . . It's a growing bonfire of controversy. This book is one of the matches. ("The Philadelphia Inquirer")

MARK FAINARU-WADA and LANCE WILLIAMS are investigative reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle. After fifteen months of covering steroid use in sports, in December 2004 they reported in the Chronicle on the secret grand jury testimony of pro baseball players Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds, making headlines around the world. Fainaru- Wada and Williams won the Dick Schaap Excellence in Sports Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House CorrespondentsÂ’ AssociationÂ’s Edgar A. Poe Award for their reporting.