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This title will have special appeal in Canada, where Arturo Gatti was a citizen and revered as a legend in the sports worldCo-op advertising available for booksellers willing to carry other titles in the Hamilcar Noir series. On November 12 2019 the first two volumes in this hard-hitting true crime series publish together. Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero (ISBN: 9781949590142) is volume 1 and The Ghost of Johnny Tapia (ISBN: 9781949590159) is volume 2. Each is a standalone nonfiction true-crime biography about boxers who led troubled lives and met unfortunate ends.Volume 3, Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing's Murder Capital, with foreword by T.J. English, publishes February 25, 2020

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...Tobin astutely looks at the varying possibilities that would have led to Gatti's death. Such an approach intelligently and respectfully piques interest in a real-life mystery that has left Gatti's fans and family in need of both solace and satisfactory answers.--Kirkus Reviews Where I find myself lost in other gifted writers' words or stories, or simply skimming lesser writers, I find myself more aware when reading [Tobin], I find myself guessing why he made certain choices, asking how much of what I'm thinking he intended. Oftentimes I pause and answer a question he poses then decipher his reason for asking it, but when he is at his best, I find, I can't decipher why he asked a question, and I like that discovery. I like that he's gone in a direction I can't explain because I know he is an intelligent writer and a thoughtful person, tender even, who writes with authority, and so, if he's gone somewhere without leaving breadcrumbs, I know he's invited me to a place I'd not have accessed without him.--Bart Barry, 15rounds.com What could have been a somewhat tasteless murder mystery, Tobin's purpose is welcomely, deliberately, indefinite. Instead of a Shakespearean tragedy, or yet another bloody chapter of boxing's wider legacy, in reciting and debating Gatti's death Tobin's document becomes a meditation on the human condition, the false belief in the true existence of empathy, that we arrogantly convince ourselves to understand others. 'When a family loses one of its own to suicide, a panic descends, summarises Tobin, without having definitively opined the true cause of Gatti's death, The panic is rooted in the need to understand, to quarantine this act of destruction, to make it intelligible before the suffering borne of mystery spreads. --Jack Porter, The Sportsman Did he commit suicide or was it an accident? These are the questions author Jimmy Tobin sets out to answer... Very much a human-interest read, it draws the reader in and leads them to other, darker possibilities from the night in question. .--Bookmakers, Best Sports Books Released This Year The heart of the story is really not about Gatti, but, rather, about the impact his death had on those who knew and loved...Tobin, professional he is, never tips his hand to the reader, and allows for the facts and the evidence to shape the story. And as with any good mystery, this one will be debated, analyzed, and relegated to the territory of unsolved for the foreseeable future. This book is recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries. --Gavin Woltjer, President, Montana Library Association -- Kirkus Reviews

...Tobin astutely looks at the varying possibilities that would have led to Gatti's death. Such an approach intelligently and respectfully piques interest in a real-life mystery that has left Gatti's fans and family in need of both solace and satisfactory answers. -Kirkus Reviews

...Tobin astutely looks at the varying possibilities that would have led to Gatti's death. Such an approach intelligently and respectfully piques interest in a real-life mystery that has left Gatti's fans and family in need of both solace and satisfactory answers. -Kirkus Reviews Where I find myself lost in other gifted writers' words or stories, or simply skimming lesser writers, I find myself more aware when reading [Tobin], I find myself guessing why he made certain choices, asking how much of what I'm thinking he intended. Oftentimes I pause and answer a question he poses then decipher his reason for asking it, but when he is at his best, I find, I can't decipher why he asked a question, and I like that discovery. I like that he's gone in a direction I can't explain because I know he is an intelligent writer and a thoughtful person, tender even, who writes with authority, and so, if he's gone somewhere without leaving breadcrumbs, I know he's invited me to a place I'd not have accessed without him. -Bart Barry, 15rounds.com

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Jimmy Tobin is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Tobin is now widely-recognized as one of the best boxing writers today. His work has appeared in Hannibal Boxing, The Cruelest Sport, 15 Rounds, Esquina Boxeo, El Malpensante, The Queensbury Rules, and The Fight Network. Tobin's first book is Killed in Brazil (Hamilcar Publications 2020), exploring the myths and mystery surrounding Arturo ""Thunder"" Gatti's untimely death in Brazil. He teaches at George Brown College in Toronto.

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