The gripping exposÊ of a tycoonâs greed and his shattering self-destruction.
Robert Maxwell was one of Britainâs most flamboyant, complex and â seemingly â richest business titans.
In this dramatic narrative investigative author Tom Bower, whose bestselling biography Maxwell: The Outsider exposed Maxwellâs crimes during his life, reveals how his secrets caught up with him â from the mammoth scale of his hidden fraud, to his mysterious death off the coast of the Canary Islands, to the trials of his children as their empire collapsed.
Told with explosive, exclusive detail, this is the riveting story of a generation-defining web of corruption.
âA story which has everything: greed, intrigue, fraud, sex, spies, famous names and a mysterious and violent deathâ
Observer
âA devastating indictment not only of one man but of human fallibility and the City of Londonâ
Sunday Times
âThis book is difficult even to review without running into problems of defamation. Bower is quite fearless ... Excellentâ
Daily Telegraph
Tom Bower has a distinguished reputation as an investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist and is the author of several ground-breaking books about tycoons. His most recent works are âConrad and Lady Blackâ, âThe Squeezeâ and his biographies of Simon Cowell and Bernie Ecclestone. Among his other much-debated biographies are those of Mohammed Fayed, Richard Branson and Robert Maxwell.