
A knock-out debut sports epic taking a unique journey into the world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting Step into the octagon Welcome to the heart of the fight Three years & two fighters
- one ageing tired struggling from one backstreet dive to another; & one young fast going places punching it out in packed Las Vegas arenas One on the way up & the other on the way out & they fight & they fight
- while through it all Kit a spacetaker a ghost haunting their cages follows & assists them drawn to the dark allure of men living from blow to blow where the true battle is never with their opponent but always & forever with themselves' The most fascinating book I've read this year The precision of Howley's prose reminds me of Joan Didion or David Foster Wallace' Time'A poetic portrait of a bloody American subculture' O The Oprah Magazine' The fight book of our generation has landed a fantastic debut' The Week' Compulsively readable' The New York Times