- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 Jan 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140138722
- ISBN-13: 978-0140138726
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 876,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A full-scale insider's investigation of British sport's most baffling crimes - the death of boxer Freddie Mills. Former world light heavyweight boxing champion, Mills became a media celebrity and popular hero after his retirement from the ring. In 1965, he was found dead in a Soho alley, shot through the eye with a rifle. The official verdict was suicide - but nearly 30 years later many people in boxing are still convinced that Mills was murdered. Journalist and boxing authority, Tony Van Den Bergh, sifts through the evidence to provide some new insights into the boxer's death.
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I am old enough to remember Freddie Mills post boxing period in the late 50s and early 60s given his many appearances on entertainment shows on TV and then the later sad news of his death. Not knowing whether to expect a boxing biography or an investigation of his death, the book ends up being both and never wholly satisfactory in either regard.
The author has both lengthy experience of the boxing world at that time through his involvement as an Inspector for the British Boxing Board of Control and also extensive contact with the London criminal world, so should be well placed to pull all the strands together. The difficulty is that in writing style the story bounces around a lot mixing in many anecdotes that seem out of place at times to the story line, plus a lot of the writer's comments for a book that was published in the early 1990s sadly just reiterate a lot of already well known facts (the chapters on the Krays being probably the best examples). A lot of the book is simply the author's sideways observations around the boxing fraternity and their sport (which the author has clearly lost faith in from his analysis of all that is wrong with boxing)and several passing mentions of members of the criminal underworld based on his contacts.
All this would be to the good if such knowledge was put over in a cogently developed story linking in the different stages and also evidence the author had done further investigations of his own on the facts. This does not happen - there is for example little stated when you reach his final comments as to what he had heard about the real truth of Mill's death that leaves you feeling this is any more facts based or possible than the numerous other theories that have been floated over the years and are covered in the book.
At it simplest level the book's almost non-coverage of the relationship with and what happened to him and the business after Mills death of his business partner in the fateful Soho restaurant, Andy Ho, repeats a flaw in many other writings on Mills.
In summary a not too convincing read given the above style and approach used.
The author has both lengthy experience of the boxing world at that time through his involvement as an Inspector for the British Boxing Board of Control and also extensive contact with the London criminal world, so should be well placed to pull all the strands together. The difficulty is that in writing style the story bounces around a lot mixing in many anecdotes that seem out of place at times to the story line, plus a lot of the writer's comments for a book that was published in the early 1990s sadly just reiterate a lot of already well known facts (the chapters on the Krays being probably the best examples). A lot of the book is simply the author's sideways observations around the boxing fraternity and their sport (which the author has clearly lost faith in from his analysis of all that is wrong with boxing)and several passing mentions of members of the criminal underworld based on his contacts.
All this would be to the good if such knowledge was put over in a cogently developed story linking in the different stages and also evidence the author had done further investigations of his own on the facts. This does not happen - there is for example little stated when you reach his final comments as to what he had heard about the real truth of Mill's death that leaves you feeling this is any more facts based or possible than the numerous other theories that have been floated over the years and are covered in the book.
At it simplest level the book's almost non-coverage of the relationship with and what happened to him and the business after Mills death of his business partner in the fateful Soho restaurant, Andy Ho, repeats a flaw in many other writings on Mills.
In summary a not too convincing read given the above style and approach used.
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