World rights to award-winning journalist and broadcaster, who works for CBC, Jeremy Allingham‘s MAJOR MISCONDUCT has been acquired by Brian Lam at Arsenal Pulp Press, by Samantha Haywood and Rob Firing. The book explores the dark side of Canada’s national pastime: bare-knuckle boxing on ice. Hockey players as young as 12 years old are trained to fight, most often with an eye on junior and professional careers, the pursuit of the Canadian hockey dream. But, as we learn more about concussions, mental health and CTE; and see lives laying in ruin, is all of that violence worth it?
