Branson: Behind the Mask (43 page)
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Authors: Tom Bower
Tom Bower is an investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist. A former producer and reporter for BBC Television, he is the author of twenty books, including biographies of Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Fayed, Gordon Brown and Conrad Black.
Broken Dreams
, his investigation into corruption in English football, won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 2003 and his two most recent biographies – of Bernie Ecclestone and of Simon Cowell – were
Sunday Times
bestsellers. He lives in London.
BLIND EYE TO MURDER
KLAUS BARBIE
THE PAPERCLIP CONSPIRACY
RED WEB
MAXWELL: THE OUTSIDER
TINY ROWLAND
THE PERFECT ENGLISH SPY
HEROES OF WORLD WAR II
MAXWELL: THE FINAL VERDICT
NAZI GOLD
BLOOD MONEY
FAYED
BRANSON
THE PAYMASTER
BROKEN DREAMS: VANITY, GREED AND THE SOURING OF BRITISH FOOTBALL
CONRAD AND LADY BLACK: DANCING ON THE EDGE
THE SQUEEZE
NO ANGEL: THE SECRET LIFE OF BERNIE ECCLESTONE
SWEET REVENGE: THE INTIMATE LIFE OF SIMON COWELL
First published in the UK in 2014
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ISBN 978–0–571–29711–5