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'The best biography yet of the media magnate Robert Maxwell - by turns engrossing, amusing and appalling' Robert Harris, Sunday Times
'Electrifying... the supreme chronicler of modern British scandals' Mail on Sunday
From the bestselling author of A Very English Scandal, the jaw-dropping life story of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell.
In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand and children asked for his autograph. But just ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found dead in the water soon afterward.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Dk
ISBN: 9780241388679
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 04/02/2021
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Escrito por John Preston
John Preston (1953) ha trabajado como editor en Evening Standard y Sunday Telegraph. Es autor de cuatro novelas publicadas entre los años 1996 y 2007, todas ellas ambientas en el pasado. La excavación, publicada originalmente en 2007, es un relato que noveliza la excavación que tuvo lugar en Sutton Hoo, donde uno de los familiares del autor tuvo un papel destacado. La novela ha sido adaptada en una película protagonizada por Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan y Lily James, estrenada en la plataforma Netflix en 2021.