Iron Eagle by Dean Cox

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

In 2014, the big man from the Dampier Archipelago played his 15th season of AFL, having played more games for the West Coast Eagles than any other man (at the time). To fans, Coxy was - and always will be - the Iron Eagle.

Iron Eagle is Dean Cox's incredible and inspiring autobiography, a no-holds-barred chronicle of a wild childhood in the Pilbara that evolved into a glorious career in the AFL and placed him front-and-centre in one of Australian sport's most amazing rise-and-fall stories.

Tough, loyal, relentless and gifted, the two-metre-tall, seemingly indestructible Eagles ruckman rose from his humble beginnings to fuel the fast and unlikely rise of Western Australia's first team in the AFL and was the lynch-pin in the Eagle's famous 2006 premiership, a one-point win over Sydney.

With unflinching honesty, Cox's autobiography Iron Eagle takes us inside West Coast's glory years - the big games, magic moments and epic battles, including the thrilling clashes with Sydney where just 13 points separated the sides over six amazing games - and also lifts the lid on the off-field scandals that left the Eagles and their fans stranded in a dirty world of drugs, death and heartbreak.

Bullishly upfront and admirably candid, full of up-close revelations and earthy humour and tall-but-true tales, Dean Cox's Iron Eagle is the uplifting tale of a bush kid with a gift, an Eagle who dared to dream and a big man who flew into the record books and became an AFL legend. (publisher blurb)