- 2008 edition. 256 pages
- Published by Hodder Moa / Hachette Livre New Zealand Ltd.
- Paperback. Format C
- Condition: Very good, minor cover wear. Review copy sticker inside front cover
The Story of Tom Heeney. Illustrated and Indexed.
He killed a man with one punch, left another for dead and fought his way around the world to earn a shot at the greatest prize of sport. Tom Heeney was New Zealand's first global sporting hero, who mixed with the smart set as the Jazz Age roared through Manhattan in the twenties.
This was the golden era of boxing in the United States when fighters earned hundreds of thousands of dollars and the fight business was contralled by gunmen, gangsters and racketeers.
He was dogged, lucky and, unusually for the time, incorruptible, and despite a series of setbacks 'Honest Tom' eventually punched his way to a tilt at the world heavyweight title.
Prizefighting made Tom a rich man but his fortune took the count in the Wall Street Crash. Once more Tom fought back. He ran a celebrity hangout in Miami and fished with his friend, Ernest Hemingway.
Tom Heeney's story is an epic journey from the pioneer days in Gisborne through two world wars and the Great Depression' it's a journey that took him From Poverty Bay to Broadway.
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