Put your textbook cricketers, stiff white shirts, and courteous applause aside. This is Ben Stokes, a man as wild as a Yorkshire storm, who approaches the game with the reckless abandon of a gladiator and swings his willow like a lightning rod. This is a journey into the inferno that burns within a cricket player unlike any other; it's not just a biography.
We'll meet the red-haired child from Durham, where cricket was more than just...