The Big Fix: The Hunt for the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer

✍ Scribed by Forrest, Brett

• Book ID: 107907609
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 442 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062308078

✦ Synopsis

Can the most beloved sport in the world beat the corruption that threatens to tear it apart?

Known as the "beautiful game," soccer is the world's most popular sport, crossing borders and language barriers to entertain billions. But underneath it all--the raucous fans in the stadiums; the beloved players; and FIFA, the international governing body with a membership of 209 national associations--is a scandal that threatens to make soccer the ugliest sport in the world. An underworld of international gambling rings, corrupt players and officials, and shadowy figures preys on the far-flung edges of the game, making match-fixing in soccer one of organized crime's new, profitable businesses.

Now, for the first time, journalist Brett Forrest takes us inside the $700 billion international soccer betting market. In 2013 Europol revealed that more than 700 international matches have been fixed since 2008. Forrest pulls back the curtain, exposing a web of nefarious...