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Steve Davis was just a Romford rookie, learning how to play snooker from a book his father had given him, when an encounter with Barry Hearn changed his life forever. With Hearn's backing, Steve toured the country as an amateur, challenging and beating established professionals and winning titles. It wasn't long before he progressed to the world's stage, when the sport dominated the nation with a cast of legends such as Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins and Ray Reardon regularly doing battle. Twenty million viewers would witness the nail-biting conclusions of the world championships, in snooker's golden era when Steve was the best player in the world. The man behind the 'boring' tag has always been the sport's smartest, sharpest and wittiest man and he will lay bare what it was like to be him and to win in those pressure-cooker situations. This is a memoir that closely evokes the smoke-filled atmosphere of those arenas, the intrigue behind the scenes and the personal psychology and sacrifice that is required to stay at the top of such an exacting sport.