"COMPELLING" "ABSORBING"
Thomas Hauser,The Sweet Science Jack Porter, The Sportsman
The death of Alicia Muniz wasn’t a complete
surprise to anyone who knew Carlos Monzon. The surprise was that no one
else had died in his company.
He had a volcanic temper. He drank
heavily and used cocaine. He drove recklessly, had a fascination with
guns, and had been arrested many times for physical assaults. In
February of 1988, with his personal life in shreds, Monzon had finally
reached the nadir of an existence defined by hostility, with nothing to
obstruct his most savage instincts.
"Sports fans will be drawn to the work thanks to Stradley's considerable powers of description: he is probably one of the best fight writers operating today...A Fistful Of Murder manages to be several things at once: a character study of a brooding, malevolent archetype; a simple but absorbing boxing biography; and a pulpy story of a hideous crime..."--Ronnie McCluskey, The Fight City
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