Eye Of The Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story

Product Description

When Alex Higgins' first manager, John Mc Laughlin, bestowed the nickname ' Hurricane Higgins' on the young, feisty snooker player he had no idea just how apt it was to prove over the next thirty years. Eye of the Hurricane details a sad but uplifting story of a man who had everything to play for but now has to play hard for anything he can get. It describes Higgins, sitting fitfully on snooker's sidelines, still has a story to tell, another controversy to spark. Author John Hennessey promises a 'wart & all' account of Alex Higgin's life & that is precisely what he delivers in this thoroughly absorbing book... well-told but cautionary tale of how narr ow the line is between genius & insanity ' This first proper account of Higgin's life is all the more clear-eyed for being written without his co-operation.