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The Fix by Declan Hill
The Fix by Declan Hill
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The Fix

Soccer and Organized Crime
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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.

Author Biography:

DECLAN HILL is an investigative journalist and academic. He specializes in organized crime and international issues. He has completed documentaries on the killing of the head of the Canadian mafia, blood feuds in Kosovo, and ethnic cleansing in Iraq. Hill has also won awards for documentaries on honour killings in Turkey, and the murder of journalists in the Philippines. He was a Chevening Scholar at Green College, University of Oxford, and received his doctorate for his study of match-fixing in professional soccer.
Release date Australia
April 13th, 2010
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  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
THROUGHOUT ON TEXT STOCK
Pages
416
Dimensions
155x230x23
ISBN-13
9780771041396
Product ID
3990729

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