Dead Shot

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The high-school gym in Hercules, Wisconsin is haunted, by a basketball player who died, tragically, on the court in 1968. John Roszak casts a dark pall in the gym and returns to spook and harass the few talented players who show up now and then at Hercules High. Roszak's latest victim, Stewart McCullough, doesn't believe in ghosts but his new girlfriend, Meryl, convinces Stewy to reach out to his personal ghost. As Stewy deals with his otherworldly specter, another-human-danger is stalking him. Clay Lutz is back in town, determined to reclaim the girl-Meryl-whom he regards as his personal property. He is willing to do anything, and hurt anyone, who stands in his way. The only person capable of protecting Stewy from Clay's seething jealousy is police chief Jim Otis. Clay's return to Hercules begins a cat-and-mouse struggle with Otis that frustrates the police chief and steadily escalates into deadly violence. Clay proves a cunning and elusive adversary to Otis, a former Chicago police detective. The dangerous game even involves Josie Dobbs, the teenage femme fatale who has been Otis' nemesis since her first appearance in Jailbait. As the basketball season progresses, Stewy and Meryl find themselves coping with mortal peril both from the living (Clay Lutz) and the dead (John Roszak), with Jim Otis as the anxious guardian of their lives and their love.