Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing, by Donald McRae, award-winning author of eleven non- ction books and staff writer for the Guardian, is widely considered of one of the best boxing books all time. This is a new edition, released in the United States for the rst time, that includes a new chapter by the author, plus a stunning cover that features a painting of boxer James Toney by noted boxing artist Amanda Kelley.
Dark Trade captures McRae's illuminating ve-year journey through the intense and forbidding world of the professional ght game. Tyson, Bruno, Hamed, Benn, Eubank, Holy eld, Watson, Jones, and Toney con de in him their fears and ambitions. Their fantastic, almost mythological stories are uncovered in striking detail, drawn from the hundreds of hours McRae 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 drives men to pursue this most brutal kind of fame.