Knockout

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell's Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble). With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar ...and doesn't know she's one of the Hell's Belles--a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London. Thomas Peck is not most of London. The brilliant detective fought his way off the streets and into a promising career through sheer force of will and a keen ability to see things others miss, like the fact that Imogen isn't peculiar...she's pandemonium. If you ask him, she requires a keeper. When her powerful family discovers her late-night activities, they couldn't agree more...and they know just the man for the task. Thomas wants nothing to do with guarding Imogen. He is a grown man with a proper job and no time for the lady's incendiary chaos, no matter how lushly it is packaged. But some assignments are too explosive to pass up, and the gruff detective is soon caught up in Imogen's world, full of her bold smiles and burning secrets...and a fiery passion that threatens to consume them both.

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell's Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble). With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar ...and doesn't know she's one of the Hell's Belles--a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London. Thomas Peck is not most of London. The brilliant detective fought his way off the streets and into a promising career through sheer force of will and a keen ability to see things others miss, like the fact that Imogen isn't peculiar...she's pandemonium. If you ask him, she requires a keeper. When her powerful family discovers her late-night activities, they couldn't agree more...and they know just the man for the task. Thomas wants nothing to do with guarding Imogen. He is a grown man with a proper job and no time for the lady's incendiary chaos, no matter how lushly it is packaged. But some assignments are too explosive to pass up, and the gruff detective is soon caught up in Imogen's world, full of her bold smiles and burning secrets...and a fiery passion that threatens to consume them both.

Knockout er en dramatisk og fængende fortælling om amatørboksningens historie i Danmark. Fra nævekæmpernes famlende start i midten af 1890’erne til i dag, hvor kvinderne også har taget handskerne på. I 1924 vandt letvægteren Hans Nielsen guld ved Ol i Paris, mens sværvægteren Søren Petersen og letsværvægteren Thyge Petersen begge fik sølv. Det satte Danmark på verdenskortet som den tredje største boksenation. Stor- hedstiden varede helt ind i 1970’erne, hvor de jyske mesterskaber over en weekend kunne samle omkring 10.000 tilskuere. I 1915 blev Danmarks Bokse-Union dannet og blev det største specialforbund under Danmarks Idrætsforbund. Boksning var blevet den populæreste sport i Danmark, selv om alle var drevet af kærlighed til boksningen, kneb det med hengivenheden indbyrdes. Af de godt 20 formænd, der har stået i spidsen for DaBU, er halvdelen blevet væltet eller gået i vrede, hvilket gav formandsposten tilnavnet ”øretævernes holdeplads”. Formanden skulle navigere mellem mange modsatrettede interesser: hvor skulle han placere sig i det anspændte forhold mellem jyder og københavnere? Jævnligt dukkede skandaler op i avisernes spalter, hvor amatørboksere var afsløret i at modtage penge for at bokse. For nogle var amatørbegrebet en hellig gral, mens andre tog lettere på det. KNOCKOUT fortæller for første gang den farverige historie om amatørboksningen i Danmark. Tidligere europamester Jesper D. Jensen, formand for dansk professionel boksning, har skrevet forord. Med over 200 illustrationer og med registre over alle, der har bidraget til boksningens historie.