From your bestselling author of Pistol and Namath, a vivid, revealing, and fast-paced biography of the fantastic boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.

Frank Sinatra fawned more than him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute music. Sylvester Stallone created his life tale as a film of the week. In the 1980s, Ray “Growth Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the light-weight champ. An adoring public regarded as him a national hero, the real Rocky.

But it all came aside on November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancini’s obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in the fourteenth round and never regained consciousness. 90 days later, Kim’s despondent mom took her personal life. The deaths would haunt Ray and spoil his properly crafted image, abruptly changing boxing’s All-American Boy right into a pariah. With the brilliant design and deep reporting that have gained him renown like a biographer, Mark Kriegel has created a fast-paced epic. The Good Son is an intimate background, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption.