The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights

On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home-of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, Shaun Assael treats the boxer's death as a cold case. The result is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.



Elvis Presley was playing two shows a night at the International. Howard Hughes was running his empire from the penthouse suite of the Desert...