The Fixer - Softcover

Bunce, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184596697X ISBN 13: 9781845966973

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Ray Lester is a fixer in the boxing business. One day a girl appears asking for help finding her father, an old school Vegas crooner. Ray travels to Sin City, along with 30,000 other Brits, to watch Hatton take on Mayweather. But with $5 million on the table & the boys in leather jackets from back east on his back, Ray is in over his head.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Bunce has worked as a journalist and broadcaster since 1985. He has been at five Olympic Games and has reported on more than fifty fights in Las Vegas. He is a regular columnist for Boxing Monthly, hosts a monthly boxing show on BBC Radio 5 Live and a weekly sports chat show on BBC London and holds various ridiculous records on Radio 5 Live's award-winning Fighting Talk.

Review:

"Reads like a Raymond Chandler for the twenty-first century . . . 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 * "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 * "The story crackles with so much authenticity that you can almost smell the stale sweat and leather as you turn the pages" * Sport Magazine *

About this edition

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 184596697X
• ISBN 13: 9781845966973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240