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Larry Getlen asks this question in an early review:

Sonny Liston was a ferocious fighter, the heavyweight champion of the world and the man Cassius Clay beat to win the title for the first time, igniting his own legend. And yet, outside of boxing, Liston was a haunted man, initiated early into a life of crime and decimated by drugs when his boxing career faltered.

His untimely end was long thought to be accidental and self-inflicted, courtesy of a heroin-filled needle in his arm. Now the book “The Murder of Sonny Liston” by Shaun Assael wonders if another might have pushed the fatal plunger.

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Men’s Journal has listed The Murder of Sonny Liston as one of the seven best books released this month:

Even before he beat Floyd Patterson in 1962 to claim the world championship, boxer Sonny Liston was considered one of the sport’s greatest, and most controversial, heavyweights. His death in 1970 was ruled the result of a heroin overdose, but many of his friends suspected foul play. Sportswriter Assael dives deep into the mystery, along the way painting a detailed picture of one of America’s greatest athletes.

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