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This raw and unsentimental biography portrays a life where every moment is a fight for survival, and how the love for his girlfriend keeps him alive. The book explores the relentless pursuit of The Big Score, the brutal art of surviving in a South American prison, and navigating a merciless criminal underworld. When an ordinary small-town guy pursues his dream of becoming a golf pro, he believes a new life awaits him. Little does he know that his journey will unexpectedly plunge him into the dark world of drugs and crime.

Whack Job is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, to its use in King Henry VIII's favorite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture.

With impeccable research and original reporting, Mark Whitaker tells the story of Malcolm X’s far-reaching posthumous legacy. It stretches from founders of the Black Power Movement such as Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton to hip-hop pioneers such as Public Enemy and Tupac Shakur. Leaders of the Black Arts and Free Jazz movements from Amiri Baraka to Maya Angelou, August Wilson, and John Coltrane credited their political awakening to Malcolm, as did some of the most influential athletes of our time, from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and beyond.