Anyone read "The Fixer" by Steve Bunce?

[MacTavish]

Have ordered it from Amazon - looking forward to it!

[15829]

its not out yet is it

[MacTavish]

Nope - thought someone who posts on here might have had a sneak peak though!

FWWIW I think it will be a cracking read as Buncey knows the game inside out.

[15829]

looking forward to it

[hurlock]

is it about being ringside for past great fights???

i see in boxing news he mentioned bruno v mcall D

[Asterix]

Product Description
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.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fixer-Steve-Bunce/dp/1845965620

It's a full-on novel?

[dondada]

I was sent a copy a week or so ago...not read it yet. Yes, it's a boxing novel.

[Spud]

Definitely buying it!!!

[Buncey]

Out on April 1...honest!

There is a plan for a book signing in Deansgate a few hours before the Haye/Ruiz fight.
I will post details.

Adios.

[chinny]

Good to see it is coming out as a paperback on day 1. Might make the trip to Deansgate to get a signed copy. Careful of clashing with the United-Chelsea match though Buncey


Who writes the blurb for Amazon?:

"He recently toured the UK with his one-man show, Bunce on Boxing."

Bunce on boxing :??

[Buncey]

The blurb nothing to do with me - there is a longer version and it made me cringe!
The publishers are looking at the Chelsea/United time.
Next week (25th) on the BBC London show I'm going to do a big boxing book special.
Details to follow.

Adios.

[chinny]

there is a longer version and it made me cringe!

What, when you read back what you'd written?

[Srebmun]

Next week (25th) on the BBC London show I'm going to do a big boxing book special.
Details to follow.

What's your fav' boxing book Buncey (if I may)?

[Counter-puncher]

Product Description
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.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fixer-Steve-Bunce/dp/1845965620

sounds so appalling it may even be quite good. in a comical sort of way.

[MacTavish]

It does sound a bit 'Jackie Collins' but should be good fun! Really looking forward to it

[Buncey]

To answer...
Chinny, cheeky, cheeky!
Jackie Collins is a compliment!
Favourite books...a short list including Mullan's Fighting Words, Whiting's Great Fights of the Sixties, Berger's Punclines, Kimball's Four Kings, Anderson's In the Corner, Hauser's original Ali, Allison's Empire of Deceit, Schulberg's The Harder they Fall, Chatton's Lazarus and the Hurricane and bits and pieces from about 200 modern books.

By the way, this is how novelist Tony Parsons described The Fixer: "A hard-boiled, two-fisted, wise-cracking novel about the boxing world's black underbelly."

Adios.

[J]

buncey did you manage to get that birds number off CNN that interviewed you pre Pac clottey...she was a babe.......

[gobbles]

It does sound a bit 'Jackie Collins' but should be good fun! Really looking forward to it

Chick lit by Bunce? Could he be a secret romantic

[Buncey]

I missed a trick with the Jackie Collins thing. I need her to write a blurb for it!
Sadly, it's not 'chick lit' - I know that upsets a few of you, sorry about that.
Adios and thanks.

[deadpan]

Anybody want to know the ending?

It's 'Adios'.

[Buncey]

The publishers are trying to arrange a book signing in Manchester on the day of the Haye v Ruiz fight. It looks like the Waterstones out at the Trafford Centre at about 12:30. I will get back with firm details.

Adios.

[DIRT SUGAR]

To answer...
Chinny, cheeky, cheeky!
Jackie Collins is a compliment!
Favourite books...a short list including Mullan's Fighting Words, Whiting's Great Fights of the Sixties, Berger's Punclines, Kimball's Four Kings, Anderson's In the Corner, Hauser's original Ali, Allison's Empire of Deceit, Schulberg's The Harder they Fall, Chatton's Lazarus and the Hurricane and bits and pieces from about 200 modern books.

By the way, this is how novelist Tony Parsons described The Fixer: "A hard-boiled, two-fisted, wise-cracking novel about the boxing world's black underbelly."

Adios.

Recommend Looking for a Fight by David Matthews. Great little read.

[Buncey]

The Mathews book is a good book with some fine people.

Adios.

[whicker]

Sounds a compelling read!

Is it straight fiction, or "Persian Letters" style book?

[J]

im reading dark trade at present Mark. great read