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Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
Ken Bensinger
Simon and Schuster
June 2018
368
書籍編號:
03-8706
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● 內文簡介

★已授權美(S&S)、英(Profile)、巴、義、葡、荷、日、波、西!
★麥特戴蒙與班艾佛列克聯手創辦的製作公司Pearl Street簽下電影改編權,將與華納兄弟影業合作。
★亞馬遜編輯精選「最佳非小說」、讀者4.6星好評

前任FIFA執委會成員布雷茲(Chuck Blazer)在2013年承認行賄貪汙後,美國爆發體壇最大醜聞案,普立茲獎決選作家暨《BuzzFeed》調查記者Ken Bensinger隔年在媒體發表一篇布雷茲收賄內幕的文章,引起廣大關注。美國出版社Simon and Schuster重金力邀作者將完整調查並付梓成書。

作者揭發,布雷茲利用自己的影響力謀取私利,到挹注資金買位於曼哈頓的川普大樓豪宅(只為了供養他的貓);布雷茲以收回扣聞名,被稱是「10趴先生」(Mr. Ten Percent),因為從2011年起就長年逃漏稅收,隨後被美國聯邦調查局(FBI)盯上。此事發生後,美國執法單位開始祕密調查FIFA整體的行賄惡習,也逐步揭發這個存在體壇數十年的貪腐黑幕。

書中,作者殘酷地指出:其實全球熱門運動賽事無不與回扣、騙局、洗錢等黑幕密切相關。

《Red Card》是一本直擊內幕和的調查著作,敘述手法宛如一部經濟犯罪小說,將帶讀者見證一場在「好」與「惡」之間的刺激拉鋸戰。

 

● 作者簡介

Ken Bensinger is an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News. He has worked at The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, has been a winner of the ASME National Magazine award and the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Finance & Business Reporting, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting. 

 

● 媒體報導

“Red Card is timely and fascinating, a galloping world tour of the filth and corruption that stretches from Trump Tower to the heart of Russia. With gripping storytelling, Ken Bensinger reveals how the FIFA empire was constructed, what caused it to crash down, and why nothing will ever be the same. Readers won't be able to put this book down.” -- Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

“Red Card is a globe-trotting, stylish non-fiction crime thriller…. Ken Bensinger exposes the massive FIFA case as a narrative with enough twists, betrayals, and action for a Hollywood noir.” -- Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk

"If you love soccer, then you probably hate FIFA. I took immense pleasure in reading this cracking tale of how an unlikely crew of Yanks busted the cabal of crooks that ran the global game for so long. Ken Bensinger has beautifully reported a great procedural that gets to the heart of so much that is wrong with sport—and the world." -- Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World and World Without Mind