Town & Country: “A New Novel Explores the Dark Side of Professional Tennis”

There's a moment in the novel Trophy Son where a friend reminds main character Anton Stratis: "The bigger the star, the bigger the sacrifice." It's a theme that runs throughout the book, which follows tennis prodigy Anton as he deals with an obsessive and overbearing father, navigates the competitive world of professional sports (and the performance-enhancing drugs that inevitably come with it), and struggles to figure out who he is outside the court.

Trophy Son… is at once a fascinating look inside this milieu and also a cautionary tale about the dangers of our achievement-obsessed society. Below, author Douglas Brunt talks to T&C; about the sports world, the domino effects of early excellence, and how he plans to raise his three kids with wife Megyn Kelly.

Read the interview at Town & Country

Douglas Brunt

Until 2011, Douglas Brunt was CEO of Authentium, Inc., a security company. His first novel, Ghosts of Manhattan, was a New York Times bestseller. His latest book is the deeply researched and compelling “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel”

https://douglasbrunt.com/
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