The gripping exposΓ© of a tycoonβs greed and his shattering self-destruction.
Robert Maxwell was one of Britainβs most flamboyant, complex and β seemingly β richest business titans.
In this dramatic narrative investigative author Tom Bower, whose bestselling biography Maxwell: The Outsider exposed Maxwellβs crimes during his life, reveals how his secrets caught up with him β 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.
βA story which has everything: greed, intrigue, fraud, sex, spies, famous names and a mysterious and violent deathβ
Observer
βA devastating indictment not only of one man but of human fallibility and the City of Londonβ
Sunday Times
βThis book is difficult even to review without running into problems of defamation. Bower is quite fearless ... Excellentβ
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 βConrad and Lady Blackβ, βThe Squeezeβ 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.