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Ron Ross’ Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. is not near to one Jewish boxer, his meteoric rise to fame, and victimization by the press. Bummy’s life used to be intertwined with the Great Depression, the survival of the Brooklyn Jewish immigrant population right through Prohibition, and the inevitable offshoot of Prohibition-Murder Inc., one of American history’s most notorious band of killers. Ron Ross portrays a very powerful historical period of time, an enigmatic Jewish subculture, and the surprising juxtaposition of a generation of Jews and their talent for boxing.
Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. features a cast of colorful villains whom you can love to hate, a boxing legend who used to be the unwitting pawn of fate, and the human drama of the boxing world. With his vivid, street-smart Damon Runyonesque writing style, Ron Ross redeems a tragic hero who fought the pull of one of the brutal groups of killers to grace the twentieth century.