Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing's Murder Capital

“[A] gritty, true—crime narrative…with hard—edged prose and a total absence of cheap moralizing…[A] stark and gripping account.”—Kirkus Reviews

"The historical fact that the city of Boston has seen more than its share of this breed – boxers who became intertwined with the criminal underworld – is the literary gold that author Don Stradley mines so beautifully in this book. There are moments of triumph in the ring, and some failure...