The Fixer

Ray Lester is a fixer in the boxing business. He makes fights happen. He builds a bridge and guides boxers across to the negotiating table. Ray Lester is good at his job. One morning, a girl arrives at Ray’s door and asks him for help finding her father, an old-school Vegas crooner called Eddie Lights. Ray travels with his questions to Sin City, along with 30,000 other Brits with their Union Jacks on the way to watch Hatton take on Mayweather. But the boys in leather jackets from back east are on his tail and Ray finds himself embroiled in a murderous plot. So begins a journey into the murky world of deals, fights and fighters. A world beyond the glitz, glamour and glory. A world where the fixer is king.

Reviews of The Fixer

"Reads like a Raymond Chandler for the twenty-first century … As a thriller writer, Steve Bunce wipes the floor with Stieg Larsson" — Tony Parsons Daily Mirror "A devastating evocation of the way the sport functions at its basest level" — George Kimball, author of the bestselling Four Kings "One of only a handful of recent additions to a genre once distinguished by men like Leonard "Fat City" Gardner and Budd "The Harder They Fall" Schulberg" The Independent "What Bunce has done brilliantly in The Fixer is to borrow heavily from his decades in and around boxing as participant, commentator and salesman to tell a fictional tale that is disturbingly close to the real thing" The Observer "The story crackles with so much authenticity that you can almost smell the stale sweat and leather as you turn the pages" Sport Magazine