Bamboozled: An Incarcerated Boxer Goes Undercover for John McCain's Boxing Bill
Publishing Details
Bamboozled: An Incarcerated Boxer Goes Undercover for John McCain's Boxing Bill
By (Author) Joey Torrey
By (author) Joe Biel
Microcosm Publishing
Microcosm Publishing
3rd June 2013
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
796.83092
Physical Properties
128
Width 107mm, Height 178mm
116g
Description
An exploration of L.A. boxer Joey Torrey's chaotic and conflicting life, from his rise from Compton gang leader to Olympic hopeful to his drug and corruption riddled fall into a maximum security cell. In the late 70s, Joey Torrey was a young boxer skyrocketing towards the Olympics until he was convicted of murdering his manager. He has spent most of the last 30 years in prison, aside from a period where he collaborated with the FBI to clean up boxing. Torrey bares all in this personal memoir where he explains how he has been manipulated by managers and bamboozled by the FBI.
Reviews
Everything is here, every imaginable seedy mainspring, a fountain of bathos and pathos, sybaritism and solipsism, vice and violence and sport and sex, and Biel draws up the cup and offers up a cold, clear sip. - Verbicide Magazine
It keeps you wanting more and more. - Doghouse Boxing
Author Bio
Joey Torrey was convicted for the murder of his boxing manager and is currently in the Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California.Joe Biel is the author of Beyond the Music and Make a Zine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
