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The Fixer

3.97 ( 461 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Fixer

The Fixer

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3.97 (461 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 1 April, 2010
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Ray Lester is a fixer in the boxing business. He makes fights happen. He builds a bridge and guides boxers across to the negotiating table. Ray Lester is good at his job. Then one morning a girl arrives at Ray's door and asks him for help finding her father, an old-school Vegas crooner called Eddie Lights. Ray travels with his questions to Sin City, along with 30,000 other Brits with their Union Jacks on the way to watch Hatton take on Mayweather. But before long, the boys in leather jackets from back east on his tail and Ray finds himself embroiled in a murderous plot. So begins a journey into the murky world of deals, fights and fighters. It is a world beyond the glitz, glamour and glory, where men like Ray Lester operate. It is a world where the fixer is king.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781845965624
ISBN10 1845965620
Number Of Pages 240
Item Weight 322 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 22 x 230 mm
Publisher / Reseller Mainstream Publishing
Format paperback
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Media Reviews

Reads like a Raymond Chandler for the twenty-first century. A hard-boiled, two-fisted, wise-cracking novel about the boxing world's black underbelly. As a thriller writer, Steve Bunce wipes the floor with Stieg Larsson -- Tony Parsons Daily Mirror A devastating evocation of the way the sport functions at its basest level -- George Kimball, Author Of The Bestselling Four Kings One of only a handful of recent additions to a genre once distinguished by men like Leonard Fat City Gardner and Budd The Harder They Fall Schulberg The Independent A pacey, rollicking crime caper set in the wonderful, tempestuous snakepit of professional boxing ...written as Bunce talks: chest out, shoulders rolling, nipping with telling jabs here and there The Big Issue What Bunce has done brilliantly in The Fixer is to borrow heavily from his decades in and around boxing as participant, commentator and salesman to tell a fictional tale that is disturbingly close to the real thing The Observer

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Author's Bio

Steve Bunce has worked as a journalist and broadcaster since 1985. He has been at five Olympic Games and reported on over fifty fights in Las Vegas. As well as being a regular columnist for Boxing Monthly he also contributes to The Independent. He has a monthly boxing show on BBC 5 Live and a weekly sports chat show on BBC London. He recently toured the UK with his one-man show, Bunce on Boxing.

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