Waiting for Carver Boyd (Paperback or Softback)

Thomas Hauser has resurrected the spirited of boxing"-George Foreman, World Heavy Weight Champion

"Hauser, always a skilled writer, outdoes himself here. He puts you in this fight. And as you continue to read, he makes you understand in a way that will jolt your psyche. He will challenge you not to put this book down. And you will lose.

He will open your mind to look into what we call the "sweet science." But beyond that, he will tear away the tinsel of a title fight and cut into the scab of its brutality. He will expose it all here. It is raw, painful, beautiful and, above all, real.

This is one hell of a book. " - Jerry Izenberg Legendary Sportswriter, Inductee International Boxing Hall of Fame.

From the renowned author of Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, Thomas Hauser's most riveting

work to date tells the tale of a young fighter who rises from hard origins to challenge for the most

coveted prize in sports: the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.

Moving back and forth with increasing intensity between the bright lights and shadows of

professional boxing, Waiting for Carver Boyd is about hope, anger, loss, and belief in oneself. It's a

love story with a special twist.

Hauser, an unparalleled chronicler of the contemporary boxing scene, strips the sport bare of its

glamour and glitz to give readers an inside look at how the sweet science really works.

Reviews:

"Hauser is the most respected boxing journalist working today and perhaps the best ever."

- Booklist

"Thomas Hauser is a great writer. He knows boxing and tells it like it is. I've been there. I know."

- Larry Holmes

"There is no one better equipped to write about boxing than Thomas Hauser." - Joe Frazier

"A hundred years from now, if people want to learn about boxing in this era, they'll read Thomas

Hauser." - Lennox Lewis

THE GUARDIAN: Thomas Hauser is best known for Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, which

won the William Hill sports book of the year prize in 1991. But he was writing novels long before

that, and his latest makes use of his deep knowledge of the boxing world. Hollywood executives

ought to be weighing its big-screen potential.

THE TIMES (OF LONDON): Bringing a spectator sport to life on the page is no mean feat. Hauser

pulls it off in spare and direct prose that can be read in one breathless sitting.

Thomas Hauser is an attorney and well-known author based in New York city with over 50 published fiction and nonfiction books. Most recently, he and author Dr. Robert Peter Gale re-released a bestselling classic book Chernobyl: The Final Warning. For many years he has written extensively about boxing - he was recently selected for boxing's highest honor, induction into the International Boxing Hall Fame