Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing (Mainstream Sport)
Donald McRae’s newly updatedDark Traderemains a classic of sports writing—a vividly personal journey through the highly charged world of the professional fight game.“Donald McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen countless fights both minor and major in England and the United States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of boxers and their associates. Dark Trade bears comparison with Thomas Hauser’s The Black Lights…but Dark Trade is more picaresque in form, taking the reader ringside in vividly rendered, and in several cases graphically brutal, matches…McRae brings to the highly charged, obsessive world of professional boxing a novelist’s eye and ear for revealing detail and convincingly recalled dialogue…Engaging, sympathetically rendered, emotionally direct…This is an impassioned book.”  —Joyce Carol Oates,Los Angeles Times