The Fixer

A rip-roaring thriller set behind the scenes of the modern boxing world

Reads like a Raymond Chandler for the twenty-first century . . . As a thriller writer, Steve Bunce wipes the floor with Stieg Larsson

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

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 story crackles with so much authenticity that you can almost smell the stale sweat and leather as you turn the pages

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

An intriguing tale, not least because Bunce cleverly mixes fictional characters with real personalities

A fast-paced boxing thriller that dips into the murky side of the sport

Steve Bunce has worked as a journalist and broadcaster since 1984, writing about boxing for the Daily Telegraph for a decade and since 1999 at the Independent, as well as having a column in Boxing Monthly and for ESPN.com. He has been at six Olympic Games, reported on more than fifty fights in Las Vegas and covered bouts in over twenty countries. He is a regular on BBC Radio Five Live, working on their monthly show since 2004, the weekly podcast and all major live fights. He has been part of the broadcast team at BoxNation since 2011 and also holds various ridiculous records on the BBC's award-winning Fighting Talk.

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. 
 
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 the boys in leather jackets from back east are 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. A world beyond the glitz, glamour and glory. A world where the fixer is king.

Steve Bunce

A history that crackles with energy and is rich in empathy.

I went on some crazy boxing journeys and Steve was always there

*FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE BIGGEST FIGHTS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS* 
 
'Essential reading for anyone with even a fleeting interest in boxing' Boxing Monthly 
 
 'Nobody knows British fighters and their stories better than Steve Bunce' Daily Telegraph 
 
Boxing is Steve Bunce's game. He has filed thousands and thousands of fight reports from ringside. He has written millions and millions of words for national newspapers previewing boxing, profiling boxers and proselytising on the business. He has been the voice of British boxing on the airwaves, both radio and television, with an army of loyal fans. And now it's time to put those many years of experience into penning his history of the sport of kings on these isles. It's Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing. 
 
Starting in 1970, the beginning of modern boxing in Britain, Bunce takes us from Joe Bugner beating Henry Cooper to an explosion then in the sport's exposure to the wider British public, with 22 million watching Barry McGuigan win his world title on the BBC. All boxing royalty is here - Frank Bruno taking on Mike Tyson in Las Vegas; Benn, Watson, Eubank and Naseem; Ricky Hatton, Lennox Lewis and Calzaghe; Froch and Haye - through to a modern day situation where with fighters as diverse as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, we have more world champions than ever before. And besides the fighters, there are the fixers, the managers, the trainers, the duckers and divers... 
 
Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing will have every high and impossible low, tragic deaths and fairy tales. It is a record of British boxing, British boxing people and fifty years of glory, heartache and drama. 
 
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 
 
***** A fantastic history and a top collectors prize already... this book knocked me out in the first pages. 
***** Must read book for boxing fans. 
***** Been reading boxing books all my life, don't think I've enjoyed one more than this. 
***** An absolute must for any British boxing fan.

Steve Bunce

Praise for Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing

A history that crackles with energy and is rich in empathy.

I went on some crazy boxing journeys and Steve was always there

Outstanding

A history that crackles with energy and is rich in empathy.

I went on some crazy boxing journeys and Steve was always there

Outstanding

A history that crackles with energy and is rich in empathy.

I went on some crazy boxing journeys and Steve was always there

Outstanding

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