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Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy : A Journey to the Heart of Cricket's Underworld, Paperback / softback Book

Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy : A Journey to the Heart of Cricket's Underworld Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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______________ THE WISDEN CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012 ‘Hawkins knows both cricket and gambling, but his greatest asset in this penetrative investigation is nerve’ - Sports Books of the Year, Sunday Times ‘Brilliantly and vividly told … The cricket world … should know more about how the gambling end of the fixing saga actually works. And they should start with this book’ – The Cricketer 'The most explosive book yet about corruption in cricket' - Lawrence Booth, editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack______________ A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down.

It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing. Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide.

It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world.

It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:240 pages
  • Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • ISBN:9781408169964

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:240 pages
  • Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication Date:
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  • ISBN:9781408169964