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*****_*** ** *_***** * * * **THE WISDEN CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012** * * * **’Hawkins knows both cricket and gambling, but his greatest asset in this penetrative investigation is nerve’** *- Sports Books of the Year, Sunday Times* ** ** ‘Brilliantly and vividly told … The cricket world … should know more about how the gambling end of the fixing saga actually works. And they should start with this book’ ***– The Cricketer* ** **’The most explosive book yet about corruption in cricket’** **- Lawrence Booth, editor of *Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack* *****_*** ** *_*** ** * * * **A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India’s illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket.** ** For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India’s illegal bookmakers – men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match – as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It’s a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing. *Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy* is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players – as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion…