Maxwell: The Outsider

Description for MAXWELL: THE OUTSIDER by Tom Bower:

Penniless Czech refugee, decorated British soldier, printer, publisher, politician, press baron, industrialist financier, confidant of presidents and media mogul extraordinaire, Robert Maxwell lived a tabloid life - all but eclipsed by a tabloid death. Yet even now the maverick, self-made millionaire remains an enigma.

Updated to include the most controversial facets of the man and his vastly extended empire, this book (which attracted typically swift litigation from Maxwell himself when it was first published) charts his irrepressible rise to fame, fortune and power - with all the failures and fiascos which frustrated his tumultuous career.

Revealed here are Maxwell's extraordinary links with the KGB, the Kremlin and Eastern Europe; his cover business activities in France; the fatal greed which drove him to overbid for Macmillan and the New York Daily News in the United States; the notorious "mirrorgate' affair and Maxwell's close relationship with the Israeli power elite; the staggering 3 billion pounds he had accrued in debts at the moment of his untimely death; and, of course, the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death itself.