Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing

A journey into the darkly compelling world of professional boxing in America and Britain. Vividly and astutely written, drawing on hours of conversations with some of the biggest names in the sport. This is no ordinary book about boxing. Dark Trade is Donald McRaes illuminating five-year journey through the intense and forbidding world of the professional fight game. Tyson, Bruno, Hamed, Benn, Eubank, Holyfield, Watson, Jones, and Toney confide in him their fears and ambitions. Their fantastic, almost mythological stories are uncovered in new and striking detail, drawn from the hundreds of hours McRae has spent in their company. With wit, compassion, and lucidity, Dark Trade examines the ways in which race and violence beat at the heart of American and British society and what it is that drives men to pursue this most brutal kind of fame. 304 pp 6 x 9 16 pp b/w photos