2016 Best Sports Book
The Boston Globe
A thrilling mystery.
Leave it to Liston to emerge as its larger-than-life anti-hero.”
Nick Pileggi
author of Wiseguy and Casino
As tough and pounding
as its subject.”
Robert Lipsyte
author of The Contender and An Accidental Sportswriter
Shaun Assael is an award-winning journalist, author and television correspondent. In a career that has included politics, true crime and sports, he’s written on subjects as varied as the FBI’s investigation into FIFA, the history of steroids in America, and the mob in Las Vegas. more »
New Awards
Thanks to the National Association of Black Journalists for recognizing me at its annual awards ceremony in New Orleans, and to the Killer Nashville International Mystery Writers’ Conference for making The Murder of Sonny Liston a two-time award winner.
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