The Nowhere Men


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Winner of The Times British Sports Book Award 2014. A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made: “Get down here quick. This is something special”. Another boy is 8, going on 28. His name is Jack Wilshere. The referee, an Arsenal scout, spirits him away from Luton Town. A young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two. His name is Jack Butland. Within months he will be playing for England. Welcome to football’s hidden tribe. Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere, faceless and nameless, despite making the informed decisions worth millions. Award-winning sportswriter Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world, examining their disconnected lifestyles, petty betrayals and unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long, lonely hours on the road.




Nowhere Men #7


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ERIC STEPHENSON, JORDIE BELLAIRE, and FONOGRAFIKS welcome new artists DAVE TAYLOR and EMI LENOX as the Eisner-nominated series returns with the first of six all-new issues. Featuring 32 pages of story and no ads, the second story arc picks up right where the volume one trade paperback left off and will ship monthly through May 2016.




Nowhere Men Vol. 1


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SCIENCE IS THE NEW ROCK 'N' ROLL! So said Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange, and Thomas Walker at the dawn of a new age of enlightenment that ushered in a boom in scientific advancement. As the research supergroup World Corp., they became the most celebrated scientists of all time. They changed the world--and we loved them for it. But where did it all go wrong? And when progress is made at any and all cost, who ultimately pays the price? Collects NOWHERE MEN #1-6




Nowhere Men #1


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'SCIENCE IS THE NEW ROCK 'N' ROLL.' So said Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange and Thomas Walker at the dawn of a new age of enlightenment that ushered in a boom in scientific advancement. As the research supergroup World Corp., they became the most celebrated scientists of all time. They changed the world--and we loved them for it. But where did it all go wrong? And when progress is made at any and all cost, who ultimately pays the price?




Nowhere Men #11


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The malady lingers.




Nowhere Men #6


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Thinking the unthinkable.




Nowhere Men #3


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Some disasters are bigger than others.




Nowhere Men #8


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The survivors of the World Corp space station disaster struggle to come to grips with their respective transformations.




Nowhere Men #4


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Everybody's on the run.




The Nowhere Men


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Based around a billion-dollar drugs-and-arms deal between the American and Russian mafia, this story unlocks a secret underworld of corruption, vice and greed.