The Last Bell: Life, Death And Boxing

‘If Dark Trade was about one man wanting to find out what it is to fight and how it feels to lose, The Last Bell is about a man who is now familiar with these things through personal experience using boxing as a reminder that he is not alone in feeling the emotions attached to them.  
McRae’s eyes may be wearier and slightly narrower now, but when you see modern-day boxing through them there is a surprising and refreshing clarity to be found. It is a clarity hard to find anywhere else these days and McRae, 29 years after Dark Trade, continues to write about boxing with an elegance, intelligence and maturity and again delivers the definitive text on where we are today. The Last Bell is a book plenty of people need to read but only one person could have written.’