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The Murder of Sonny Liston : (Record no. 11442)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781509814831
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 796.83 LIS
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Assael, Shaun
9 (RLIN) 391494
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Murder of Sonny Liston :
Remainder of title A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing and Las Vegas
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. England;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 303 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "On December 30th, 1970, at the age of 38, former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston died from what Las Vegas police suspected was a heroin overdose. When police arrived, they found a one-ounce balloon on Sonny's nightstand but the coroner quickly labelled Sonny's passing as death by natural causes. To this day, Liston's death hovers over Las Vegas and the sports world, leaving unanswered questions about his ties to powerful boxing promoters, billionaire hoteliers, mob kingpins and shadowy drug lords. Reviving boxing's most infamous cold case to work out what really happened on that night in December over forty years ago, in The Murder of Sonny Liston: A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas Shaun Assael examines the last mysterious year of Liston's life against the backdrop of a pivotal year in the history of Las Vegas. 1970 was the year that the mob turned a sleepy desert oasis into a cathedral of corporate gambling. Glittering new towers were rising along the strip, while race riots were devastating the black community, creating two very different cities for Sonny Liston to disappear into. With key aspects of Liston's life previously ignored or glossed over, Assael takes a fresh look at Liston's complicated life, getting to the bottom of one of America's most enduring mysteries, while painting a stunning portrait of mob-run Las Vegas in the 1970s."--Amazon.co.uk.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Liston, Sonny
9 (RLIN) 391495
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element African American boxers
General subdivision Drug use
9 (RLIN) 391496
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        Karachi Karachi Biography 05/08/2017 1 796.83 LIS PKLC021050 29/09/2018 05/08/2018 05/08/2017 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 12.99 3
        Lahore Lahore Biography 16/07/2017 1 796.83 LIS PKLC020422 11/08/2017 11/08/2017 16/07/2017 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17