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- Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
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On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home - of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, Shaun Assael treats the boxer's death as a cold case. The result is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.
Elvis Presley was playing two shows a night at the International. Howard Hughes was running his empire from the penthouse suite of the Desert Inn. And Middle America was flocking to the Strip, transforming it from an exclusive playground for the mob to a mecca for corporate dollars. But the city was also rotting from within. Heroin was pouring over the border from Mexico, and the segregated Westside was on the cusp of a race war.
Driving through town with the top of his pink Cadillac down, Liston was the one celebrity who was unafraid to bridge the two sides of Las Vegas. Cashing in on his fading notoriety in the casinos, he was dealing drugs, working for a crime syndicate, and trying to break in to Hollywood - all with a boxer's faith that he could duck any threat, slip any punch. Heroin addiction was the only knockout blow he didn't see coming.
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Jessup Burke, a lonely, naïve 16-year-old, has grown up without a father in a jobless, indifferent logging town. Out of high school a year early, he now bikes through the woods with his fishing gear, daydreaming of his sweetheart and their secret "home" in an abandoned farmhouse. When Reg, an embittered, paranoid recluse fresh out of jail for growing marijuana, encounters Jessup hitchhiking, he is at first drawn to the boy's easily manipulated naïveté, but the two soon become irreversibly bound.
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- De haley casey en 03-30-16
De: Eric Rickstad
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Redemption
- Hunters
- De: James Reasoner
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
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When a group of buffalo hunters gets into a scuffle with a party of Indians, the end results are tragic - leaving all but one of the Indians dead. With the sole survivor on his way to rally the rest of his tribe for vengeance, the buffalo hunters hightail it to the closest settlement, putting Redemption and new Marshall Bill Harvey in the middle of a range war...
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- De Hammer19 en 07-13-24
De: James Reasoner
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Get Capone
- The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
- De: Jonathan Eig
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
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Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you’ve never seen him before.
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- De Jonathan en 05-13-10
De: Jonathan Eig
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Strong Boy
- The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America’s First Sports Hero
- De: Christopher Klein
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"I can lick any son of a bitch in the world." So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sports for more than a decade and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego, a big mouth, and even bigger appetites. His womanizing, drunken escapades, and chronic police-blotter presence were godsends to a burgeoning newspaper industry.
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- De Hank en 05-01-24
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Off The Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story
- De: Candace Toft
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
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In a life as tough as his battles in the ring, Ron Lyle had already served hard time for second-degree murder before he started his amateur boxing career at the age of twenty-nine. After he turned pro, fans knew him as the man who had Muhammad Ali beat on the scorecards for ten rounds in a fight for the heavyweight title; as the man who fought George Foreman in a legendary brawl with four knockdowns that nearly saw Foreman knocked cold; and as the man who was arrested for murder a second time.Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story is not your typical boxing biography, exploring not only the ...
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The Red Eagles
- De: David Downing
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World War II is nearly over. For the Russians the enemy is no longer Nazi Germany but the American behemoth that threatens to topple the Communist revolution. Deep within the walls of the Kremlin, Stalin's top man hatches a brilliant plan that will alter the course of postwar history - and it's all based on a deception as simple as the shell game.
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- De The Real one en 03-13-23
De: David Downing
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The War
- Hagler-Hearns and Three Rounds for the Ages
- De: Don Stradley
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
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The battle between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns is remembered as one of the greatest fights of all time. But in the months before the two finally collided on April 15, 1985, there was a feeling in the air that boxing was in trouble.
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Great Book Takes you back to 1985
- De Carlos Ramon en 02-09-24
De: Don Stradley
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Smokin' Joe
- The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin' Joe Frazier
- De: Joe Frazier, Phil Berger
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
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When boxing was bold, bright, and glamorous and the fights were the hottest sporting events of the year, Joe Frazier was king as the Heavyweight Champion of the World. From 1970 to 1973 he reigned. With a career record of 32-4-1 with twenty-seven knockouts and an Olympic gold medal, Frazier leaves little question that he was one of the greatest fighters of all time.
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- De Dennis Okeefe en 02-09-21
De: Joe Frazier, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Murder of Sonny Liston
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- 4EverHisBabyDoll
- 08-07-17
Sonny
Overall was okay, however; I expected more substance and content about Sonny. Didn't need the Vegas rhetoric.
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- JMKIII58
- 06-14-17
The tragic last few
years of the World Champion Sonny Liston. A thug who never fit into the role that was put on him. This book chronicles the last few years of his life in Vegas. The unsolved mystery of his death. A great read.
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- TANYA
- 10-29-16
A Boxing Legends Story
What an intriguing listen!! This case is shrouded in mystery. The narrating was excellent. This story is a real who done it.
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- Scotch Tape
- 04-14-18
Excellent!!
Great book. Well researched and well written. Finally a few doors are opening on the LVPD corruption. Sadly it hasn’t changed much today.
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- Philo
- 04-27-22
In this desert, every fool has a flashy story ...
... to peddle, especially junkies and journalists, oh yeah, and jailbirds, stool pigeons and ex-cops too. There is something about an empty desert and a Hollywood hype mentality that mixes into a strange folklore, always gluing sparkles onto a much more tawdry truth and selling it. This author is at the top of this food chain. Here he is a top story collector and teller, with a natural feel for the subject, and great turns of phrase. This tale goes down like cheap whiskey in a trashed motel room at 4 a.m., chasing down the last tatters of fleeing dreams. The narration is pitch-perfect for this whole noir jaunt. This is as listenable as it gets.
Now, if you have known these tale-spinning junkies and so on, you know it is mostly spun up like cotton candy, often out of a lot of nothing. This is a land of ghosts, dead or almost dead, bathed in garish neon. My own impression is, the most probable story that fits is usually closest to the facts. Here is an intriguing story, with its dark corridors and twists, with its wild and weird risk-takers dancing (or golfing) through, but it isn't the crazy insoluble maze of the JFK murder. As with any degenerate junkie who dies with a kit nearby, I reckon the core of the story is too simple: Sonny just plain overdosed in his bedroom. He skated on the edge, from nowhere to the heights, to a crumbling place, and finally tipped over it. But that shouldn't keep you from the best tour of late 60s-early 70s degenerate (and star-studded) Vegas you can imagine.
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- RCC
- 09-01-18
Really great really sad story with a lot of period characters and color
for a guy who was heavyweight champion of the world, he didnt seem to have a whole lotta control over his life. i tore thru this book and found it more a lens through which you can look at a certain time and moment in america than just a true crime story--although it was certainly a good one of those too. its about the 60s and 70s in america, race relations, muhammed ali, boxing, the history of las vegas, the mafia, music, police corruption, the heroin trade and overall just a look back at the formative years of one of the most american of all americas cities: las vegas.
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- Mr. 456
- 07-22-22
Solid listen
Stumbled across this after finding out about Tyson , Ali and other fixing fights. While this is on Liston, I found this an interesting book. Well written and helps put together or discover other parts of the Champs story. Worth a credit if you're open to something different.
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- Rick Brodersen
- 12-16-23
I did not know much about Sonny
Good history on his career and life in Las Vegas.
Normally he is known for possibly throwing the Ali 2nd fight.
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- Diane Dodge
- 09-14-19
Great read
Very well written and narrated story. It’s got everything you need in a true life account of a twisted American tragedy.
Historically rich narrative of a particular time and place featuring dynamic individuals living the high life in and around the margins of polite society.
True crime history and sports nerds will not be disappointed.
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- Cburner26
- 10-11-18
Good story that keeps you wondering really happened.
It’s an interesting story of Sunny Liston before, during and after he was a fighter. You learn about the drug habit he had, drugs he sold, the shady individuals around him. I also like how it talks about about other people lives that Sunny was dealing with at the time. The performance of the reader was a little hard to comprehend. He’ll start on sentence or subject to switch to another without any difference in his tone. Overall interesting book leaving wondering what if.....
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