Hooking the Reader

John Grisham does a very good job of hooking the reader in his novel, Playing For Pizza, At the beginning of the novel,  Rick Dockery enters the game as a third-string quarter back for the browns.  They are winning 17-0 with 11 minutes to go.  He loses the game and wakes up the next day in a hospital not remembering the game.  He has a concussion and he learns that he got dropped for the 8th time in 6 years.  It really grabbed my attention and made me want to read even more.