| “The Benoit murder-suicide was one of the most sensational crime stories of 2007, and it cried out for the scrutiny of someone with a longer attention span and more intellectual integrity than the local authorities, the media, and Congress brought to bear on it. If you can read what Irv has dug up and continue to turn your head, then your powers of denial exceed mine.” From the Foreword by PHIL MUSHNICK, New York Post |
Exploring the steroid-fueled world of professional
wrestling, this riveting chronicle uses public
records, interviews, and investigative analysis to
produce the authoritative account of how Chris
Benoit killed his wife Nancy, their 7-year-old son
Daniel, and himself. Equally revealing was the
prelude – an industry lifestyle responsible for the
deaths of hundreds of Benoit's fellow performers,
including his best friend, Eddie Guerrero. Eager for
its profitable shows to continue without
interruption, and desperate to head off calls for
regulation, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling
Entertainment, a billion-dollar multinational
corporation, published contradictory and misleading
timelines of what it knew and when it knew it.
wrestling, this riveting chronicle uses public
records, interviews, and investigative analysis to
produce the authoritative account of how Chris
Benoit killed his wife Nancy, their 7-year-old son
Daniel, and himself. Equally revealing was the
prelude – an industry lifestyle responsible for the
deaths of hundreds of Benoit's fellow performers,
including his best friend, Eddie Guerrero. Eager for
its profitable shows to continue without
interruption, and desperate to head off calls for
regulation, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling
Entertainment, a billion-dollar multinational
corporation, published contradictory and misleading
timelines of what it knew and when it knew it.
| “Muchnick's latest should be called ZEN AND THE ART OF SCANDAL MAINTENANCE It’s an instant cult classic.” LARRY MATYSIK, author of Getting Heat the Hard Way: How Wrestling Really Works I |
| IRVIN MUCHNICK (www.muchnick.net) is author of WRESTLING BABYLON and a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, People, and many other major magazines and newspapers. He is lead respondent in the landmark United States Supreme Court case for freelance writers' rights, Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick. |
CHRIS & NANCY has an October 2009 publication date. Pre-order your copy now at Amazon. Or reserve your autographed copy direct from the author by sending a $10 US deposit, via PayPal, to paypal@muchnick.net. COMPLETE PRE-ORDER INFO |
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