The inaugural edition of Mumbai Super League is about to start. Eight teams comprising a mix of elites from the Indian cricket team alongside India hopefuls have set the temperatures soaring in Mumbai. Among them is Dongri Dragons, a team owned by the notorious gangster Max Malhotra aka MM, who once headed the most dreaded drug cartel in the city. MM's suspicious entry into the cricketing world immediately puts the league on the radar of the police. Zia, the rebellious daredevil cop, who has had MM on her hitlist for a long time, starts keeping a close tab on MM and his 'cricketing' activities. Then there is Vivank, a failed cricketer, who was once considered a shoo-in for the Indian team but whose love of drugs destroyed his career. He's roped in by the Dongri Dragons to coach their team. This is Vivank's last shot at redeeming himself and winning back the love of his life, Leepa. A bone-chilling gangster, an ambitious and swashbuckling super cop and a heartbroken and forgotten cricketer are all looking for an elusive turning point that could change their lives forever-but nothing is quite what it seems. What happens when their paths cross? Find out in this remarkably suspenseful, action-packed and entertaining thriller, where every page is a sixer and every twist is a shoot out!

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.

The ‘ndrangheta – the Calabrian region of Italy’s mafia – is one of wealthiest and most powerful criminal organizations today. It is considered Italy’s most powerful mafia; it’s not only the main object of concern for anti-mafia units in Italy, but also for joint investigative teams in Europe and beyond. Combining autobiography, travel ethnography, memoir, academic rigour and investigative journalism, this book provides a global outlook on the ‘ndrangheta, taking the reader to small villages and locations in Italy and abroad to Australia, Canada, United States and Argentina.

Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology, the book demonstrates that corruption and the mafia presence in Italian soccer reflect the Italian socio-political and economic system itself. Supported by interviews with security agency officials, anticorruption organisations and antimafia organisations, and analysing empirical data obtained from a case study of 'Operation Dirty Soccer', this important study explains why mafia groups are involved in soccer, what the links are to political corruption and what might be done to control the problem. It also examines the mechanisms that make it possible for mafia groups and affiliates to enter the football industry and discusses how mafia groups exploit and corrupt Italian football. This is important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the areas of sociology, criminology, policing, anthropology, the sociology of sport, sport deviance, sport management and organised crime. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the football industry.

When a friend told him that someone had lost a fortune of around Rs 100 crores (more than $ 10 million) in cricket betting and had gone bankrupt, the author decided to come up with this book. You may be living in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, America, or in Timbuktu. You may belong to any religion or creed. But if you bet on Cricket or play cricket-based fantasy games like Dream 11, this is the book for you. With the help of this book, you will not only be able to save your precious wealth, but may also outsmart the all-powerful cricket betting industry that on an average transacts an estimated daily business in excess of $ 30 billion or Rs 2 lakh crores. You can start winning and build up a fortune in a controlled manner.

Through 1996 and 1997 bestselling author Joe McGinniss followed the Italian football season from Castel di Sangro, a small town nestled in the Abruzzi region of Italy. The motley crew that comprised the di Sangro soccer team in the early 90s masked an unparalleled prowess for playing soccer. This is the story of a team and a town with no aspirations, just a passion for the game, and how that passion allowed this team to rise to the top of the professional Italian soccer league. With the lust for life of Robert Crichton's THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA and the sporting dreams of modern movie classic FIELDS OF DREAMS, THE MIRACLE OF CASTEL DI SANGRO is an ebullient story of how a two-hour game transformed a dot on the map into a place of magic, miracles and wonder.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I spoke to Gonzalo in a prison cell he shares with eight others on a sunny Tuesday morning in Ciudad Juárez. He had spent seventeen years working as a soldier, kidnapper, and murderer for Mexican drug gangs. In that time, he took the lives of many, many more people than he can count. #2 I visited a jail block mass before I sat down with Gonzalo. The pastor, a convicted drug trafficker, mixed stories of ancient Jerusalem with his hard-core street experiences, using slang and addressing the flock as the homeys from the barrio. #3 The path from policeman to villain is not uncommon in Mexico. Major drug lords, such as the 1980s Boss of Bosses Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, began as officers of the law. #4 The Mexican Drug War is a perfect example of how criminal insurgency can spread across the world. The conflict can be everywhere and nowhere, with millions of tourists sunning themselves on Cancún’s Caribbean beaches oblivious that anything is amiss.