**A sensational memoir with all the emotional power of *The Fault in Our Stars, The Yellow World* is the story of cancer and survival that has moved and inspired readers around the world.** *My heroes don't wear red capes. They wear red bands.* Albert Espinosa never wanted to write a b
Fighting to the Death (Inside the Cage): My Life in the World's Deadliest Fight Game
โ Scribed by Merritt, Carl
- Book ID
- 108247329
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781784185053
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Carl Merritt comes from a world where no rules apply, where violence has always simmered close to the surface. Still in his teens, he became trapped in a world of illegal fighting. The men who owned Carl built him into an awesome opponent, and plunged him into a world of appalling violence, crime, and retribution. Armed with firsts, elbows, feet, teeth, and forehead, Carl would target his opponents inside the cage, from which there was no escape. Only the strongest survived.
Some of Carl's opponents were even slaughtered by their own supporters, as so much money had been gambled and lost on them. London, Paris, Dublin, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Las Vegas--Carl lost track of the number of times he was smuggled into a deserted underground car park or an empty warehouse, in a strange land. Carl's most recent fight nearly proved fatal to both fighters, and once and for all he has left the bloody metal arena behind. Now he wants to break the cage's strict code of silence to...
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