An in-depth examination into the murder of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston.
Shaun Assael, who has been with ESPN The Magazine since its launch in 1996, is a member of ESPN's investigations unit and a regular contributor to the prime-time show E:60. He is also the author of three books: Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour; Sex, Lies and Headlocks, which was a New York Times bestseller; and Steroid Nation.
Readers of James Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy will feel very
much at home.
*Sunday Times*
Well researched and as gripping as the best noir fiction.
*Sunday Times Crime Club*
The Murder of Sonny Liston is a classic of the genre . . . The cast
of characters in these 303 pages is a casino-packed assembly of the
showbiz stars of a neon era who performed on that fabled Strip,
heroes of the prize-ring, shadowy figures of a Mafia underworld,
money-grubbing hangers-on, showgirls, straight and crooked
cops.
*Daily Mail*
Writing with the flair of a mystery writer and the attention to
detail of an investigative journalist . . . Assael dissects the
suspicious death of former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston
. . . The engrossing depiction of Sin City's corrupt cops,
malevolent mobsters, and drug dens follows in the footsteps of Nick
Tosches's The Devil and Sonny Liston . . . Assael's journey into
the seedy underworld of the Las Vegas's past is worth the ride.
*Publishers Weekly*
Shaun Assael delves into Las Vegas at the turn of the '70s and
uncovers a thrilling mystery. Leave it to Sonny Liston to emerge as
its larger-than-life anti-hero.
*Nicholas Pileggi*
Mobsters, casino moguls, degenerate gamblers, junkies, strung out
fighters, drug dealers, crooked cops and coke-head judges all play
a role in The Murder of Sonny Liston. Shaun Assael has delved
deeper into Liston's mysterious death than anybody and come up with
sensational results. Investigative reporting at its finest.
*Nigel Collins, Former editor-in-chief, The Ring magazine,
and 2015 inductee, International Boxing Hall of Fame*
As tough and pounding as its subject, this is the send-off Sonny
Liston deserved. Only read it if you're interested in crime, Vegas,
and boxing, or the complications of being human.
*Robert Lipsyte, author of The Contender and An
Accidental Sportswriter*
Drugs, booze, gambling, fixed fights. Casino moguls, crooked cops,
mob bosses. The Murder of Sonny Liston has it all. Investigative
reporter Shaun Assael's account of the death and life of one of
boxing's biggest and saddest characters crackles with drama,
tension, and suspense. It's part The Wire, part Chinatown, part The
Professional-but unlike those works of fiction, all remarkably
true.
*Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak and A Few Seconds of
Panic*
Assael, a member of ESPN’s investigations unit, is typically
thorough in his research and approach yet manages to balance a
meticulous attention to detail with a consideration for his
audience, which is to say he never loses sight of the need to tell
a story. The narrative is fluid and engaging, while the Las Vegas
backdrop, arguably as important a character as any human being
featured, is as alluring on the page as it is when witnessed in
person.
*Boxing News*
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