BoxRec

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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.

Buncey wrote:there is a longer version and it made me cringe!

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

Asterix wrote:

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

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

Buncey wrote: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.