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On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found lifeless in his home - of an obvious heroin overdose. But no one near to Liston assumed that his loss of life was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to cover up, Shaun Assael snacks the boxer's loss of life as a wintry case. The effect is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy time of Las Vegas. Elvis Presley was playing two shows a nighttime at the International. Howard Hughes was operating his empire from the penthouse collection of the Desert Inn. And Middle America was flocking to the Remove, transforming it from an exclusive playground for the mob to a mecca for commercial dollars. But metropolis was also rotting from within. Heroin was pouring above the boundary from Mexico, and the segregated Westside was on the cusp of the race war. Travelling through town with the most notable of his green Cadillac down, Liston was the one celebrity who was simply unafraid to bridge both sides of Las Vegas. Cashing in on his fading notoriety in the casinos, he was dealing drugs, working for a offense syndicate, and striving to break in to Hollywood - all with a boxer's faith that he could duck any menace, slip any punch. Heroin dependency was the only knockout blow he didn't see coming.
