THE HAPPY WARRIOR: The Gibbons Brothers' Fight for Glory, Volume II
Some Fights are for Glory; This One’s for Love
They call Tommy Gibbons the Happy Warrior, but behind the legendary smile is a desperate man racing the clock to save his wife from the ravages of mental illness and protect his growing family.
Armed with a quiet fire and a secret punch passed down from the Irish village his parents fled long ago, Tommy sets his sights on a million-dollar match with Jack Dempsey, the most feared heavyweight champion on earth. This sweeping Jazz Age epic catapults Tommy from underdog to folk hero, throwing him into the dazzling and dangerous world of the Roaring Twenties, where he must battle a rogue’s gallery of boxing’s most lethal brawlers and cross paths with historical luminaries like Babe Ruth, George Gershwin, Jim Thorpe, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, and more. Just as Tommy’s mission comes within reach, the greatest threat emerges from his own family, when his brother Mike—the retired St. Paul Phantom—makes a shocking return to
the ring, threatening to destroy everything Tommy is fighting for. The Happy Warrior is a sweeping true-life epic, a rousing hero’s journey, a star-crossed love story, a tale of brother against brother, and “one of the most valuable books in all of prizefighting literature.”
Coming Soon: Summer 2027
ST. PAUL—A HELLUVA TOWN: The Gibbons Brothers’ Fight for Glory, Volume III
From Prizefighters to Crimefighters
In the stunning conclusion to the Fight for Glory trilogy, the Great Depression has transformed St. Paul, Minnesota, into a “gangster’s paradise”—a haven for America’s Most Wanted criminals: bootleggers, kidnappers, bank robbers, killers, and con men like John Dillinger, “Creepy” Alvin Karpis, and Ma Barker’s murderous gang, all shielded by a corrupt police force.
When these dark powers target the Gibbons family, the era’s battles spill from the boxing ring onto the Saintly City’s blood-soaked streets. Recently retired—and virtually undefeated—heavyweight contender Tommy Gibbons, still reeling from the savage loss of his wife and raising their nine children alone, trades his gloves for a badge when he is elected Ramsey County
Sheriff. Suddenly, he is at war all over again.
Against a vivid backdrop of triple-crosses, machine-gun ambushes, explosive prison breaks, fixed fights, and the birth of modern detective work, Tommy—working alongside his brother, Mike—makes a final stand for their family’s safety and the future of their hometown. Teaming with a crusading journalist, a young surveillance pioneer, and the newly born FBI, run by a trigger-happy J. Edgar Hoover, Tommy risks everything in a bold, possibly doomed battle royale for the very soul of his beloved Saintly City—and the heart of the American Dream.
Coming Soon: Fall 2028
