Seeking a better life, Mike Gibbons, the son of an Irish rebel and immigrant, hunts
the middleweight boxing crown in early twentieth-century America. Against the
ticking clock of the outlawed sport and his own aging body, Mike’s highly strategic
quest takes him from a nobody in the middle of nowhere to the boxing mecca of
Madison Square Garden; into the orbit of historical luminaries like Harry Houdini,
Theodore Roosevelt, and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and through a crucible of women’s
rights, racial violence, mobster uprisings, a global pandemic, and a world war.