Counterpunch
1st Edition
Published on 17. August 2020
396 pages
978-0-9805882-7-9 (ISBN)
Description
Sam Smith is an English boxer from Whitechapel in the 1960s. In Counterpunch, you can follow his incredible journey into world championship boxing. Fast-paced, action-packed and full of intrigue, Counterpunch hooks you from the first page.
He came from nowhere to become a world champion.
He was helped by a team of dedicated boxing has-beens.
An unstoppable force, he needed the help of the FBI, SAS and the police on two continents as he rose through the ranks.
He has a gift. No-one can beat him.
What does he do that is so different to all other boxers?
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Person
Chris Shaw was born in 1939 in Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK. He lived there with his mother during the war years, with occasional periods of respite from the bombs and doodlebugs on his grandparents' farm in Longham village in central Norfolk. He is a prize-winning writer, and his stories have also been featured in The Weekend Australian.
Chris was educated at Framlingham College, qualified as a pharmacist and spent three years in London, then seven years in the Caribbean, travelling as a medical representative through the British-based islands.
With his family, he emigrated to Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, in 1973, working as a retail pharmacist until he retired in 2009. He owned two pharmacies.
In 1991, he married his beloved Rebecca at Trinity Beach, and they have never had a cross word.
