The Fix
Soccer and Organized Crime
Written by Declan Hill
- Category: True Crime; Sports & Recreation - Soccer; Current Affairs
- Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
- On Sale: September 2, 2008
- Price: $28.95
- ISBN: 978-0-7710-4138-9 (0-7710-4138-1)
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Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.
From the Introduction
Understand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again.
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