Maxwell: The Final Verdict

Maxwell: The Final Verdict
Tom Bower

The Book the Brothers tried to stop. Now available in ebook format.Robert Maxwell was one of the most flamboyant, complex and - seemingly - the richest self-made men in post-war Britain. The tentacles of his power stretched from newspapers to football, from the boardrooms of his many companies and into the thoughts of the world at large.Maxwell: The Final Verdict is a story of greed and corruption on a truly mammoth scale. Revealing, for the first time, how Maxwell hurtled tumultuously towards disaster, it draws upon an exceptional resource of inside knowledge, such as could only have been assembled by the leading investigative journalist of his generation. Including intimate accounts of Maxwell’s lifestyle and personality from his closest associates - from world politicians to girlfriends - answering all the questions surrounding his death and the investigations which followed it, and with full details of the trial of Kevin and Ian Maxwell, this is the most explosive expose of the decade.

Tom Bower

MAXWELL

THE FINAL VERDICT

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1996

Copyright © Tom Bower 1995

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Dedication (#u9e0e101f-2075-5204-9707-fa0bbf4541f0)

To Sophie

Epigraph (#u9e0e101f-2075-5204-9707-fa0bbf4541f0)

You are my teacher and all my life you have tried to demonstrate the principles underlying every action or inaction … Above all, you have given me the sense of excitement of having dozens of balls in the air and the thrill of seeing some of them land right.

KEVIN MAXWELL, written to his father in 1988

The Maxwell Foundation will be one of the richest of its kind in the world.

JOE HAINES, 1988

Contents

Cover (#u9cf32b3b-e4bc-52d0-a68b-b51363ad5e62)

Title Page (#uda13b901-7499-5fcf-866a-c016f122d270)

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

1 The Autopsy – 9 November 1991

2 The Secret – 5 November 1990

3 Hunting for Cash – 19 November 1990

4 Misery – December 1990

5 Fantasies – January 1991

6 Vanity – March 1991

7 Flotation – April 1991

8 A Suicide Pill – May 1991

9 Two Honeymoons – June 1991

10 Buying Silence – July 1991

11 Showdown – August 1991

12 ‘Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul’ – September 1991

13 Whirlwind – October 1991

14 Death – 2 November 1991

15 Deception – 6 November 1991

16 Meltdown – 21 November 1991

17 The Trial – 30 May 1995

Epilogue

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