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The story behind the Major Motion Picture The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, Irish Thunder is about a boxer from a boxing family and a boxing town, but it is not a boxing book. It is about the human spirit, blind loyalty, self-preservation and self-destruction. Micky's dramatic victories inside the ring are recounted in detail, but it is his victory outside the ring that will leave the reader inspired.

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The themes in Micky's ... story of family, betrayal, brotherly love, tragedy, triumph, being an underdog, perseverance, and redemption, set against a boxing backdrop, resonate with nonboxing fans. Think 'Rocky' for the new millennium. -Boston Globe Bob Halloran does a remarkable job in describing the actual key bouts of Lowell's champion boxer. You can almost feel the punches and intensity of the brutal sport. -The Sun (Lowell, MA) [T]errific... compellingly powerful... Ward was a fighter who was hard to keep down. Irish Thunder is a book that is hard to put down. -thesweetscience.com

“The themes in Micky’s . . . story of family, betrayal, brotherly love, tragedy, triumph, being an underdog, perseverance, and redemption, set against a boxing backdrop, resonate with nonboxing fans. Think `Rocky’ for the new millennium.” —Boston Globe “Bob Halloran does a remarkable job in describing the actual key bouts of Lowell’s champion boxer. You can almost feel the punches and intensity of the brutal sport.""—The Sun (Lowell, MA) “[T]errific. . . . compellingly powerful. . . . Ward was a fighter who was hard to keep down. Irish Thunder is a book that is hard to put down.""—thesweetscience.com

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Bob Halloran is a consultant on the new major motion picture The Fighter. He is the weekend news and sports anchor at WCVB-TV in Boston. He is the author of Breakdown (Lyons Press), and a former ESPN anchor and columnist for espn.com.

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