Captain Peter Baker, My Testament, John Calder, 1955
Edward de Bono, Tactics: The Art and Science of Success, William Collins, 1985
Sir George Franckenstein, Facts and Features of My Life, Cassell, 1939
Einar H. Fredriksson (ed.), A Century of Science Publishing, IOS Press, 2001
Jeffrey Robinson, The Risk Takers: Five Years On, Mandarin, 1990
Iain Stevenson, Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century, The British Library, 2010
5. Mortality
Interviews
Christine Maxwell
Isabel Maxwell
6. Down on the Bottom
Interviews
Caroline Coleman
Christine Maxwell
Ian Maxwell
Isabel Maxwell
Brian Moss
7. The Man Who Gets Things Done
Books
Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vols. One (Minister of Housing 1964–66) and Two (Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons 1966–68), Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1975– 6
Harold Evans, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, Little, Brown, 2009
Hansard, 1966/67
Sir Gerald Nabarro, Exploits of a Politician, Arthur Barker, 1973
——, NAB 1: Portrait of a Politician, Robert Maxwell, 1969
Press
Assorted press cuttings
Interviews
Jonathan Davie
Sir Harold Evans
Ian Maxwell
Brian Moss
8. Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding
Books
Neil Chenoweth, Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard, Crown Business, 2001
Simon Courtauld, As I was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson, Michael Russell, 2007
George Munster, Rupert Murdoch: A Paper Prince, Viking, 1985
Anna Murdoch, Family Business, William Collins, 1988
Simon Regan, Rupert Murdoch: A Business Biography, Angus and Robertson, 1976
William Shawcross, Murdoch, Chatto & Windus, 1992
Stafford Somerfield, Banner Headlines, Scan Books, 1979
Press
Assorted press cuttings
Interviews
Rupert Murdoch
Archives
Public Record Office
9. Robert Maxwell’s Code of Conduct
Interviews
Sir Harold Evans
Isabel Maxwell
11. The Grasshopper Returns
Books
Brian Cox, ‘The Pergamon Phenomenon 1951–1991: Robert Maxwell and Scientific Publishing’, from Learned Publishing, vol. 15, no. 4 (2002), pp. 273–3
Press
New Yorker: ‘Remembering Saul Steinberg’, October 2014
Spectator: October 1969
The New York Times: August 1970
Plus assorted newspaper cuttings
Interviews
John Ashfield
Tim Bouquet
Ian Maxwell
Bob Miranda
12. Strife
Books
Wendy Leigh, Unraveled by Him, Simon & Schuster, 2015
——, What Makes a Woman Good in Bed, Frederick Muller, 1978
Interviews
Brian Basham
Roy Greenslade
Ian Maxwell
13. Written in the Stars
Books
Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. Two. (Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons 1966–68), Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, 1976
Robert Edwards, Goodbye Fleet Street, Jonathan Cape, 1988
Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983
Interviews
Joe Haines
Ian Maxwell
Rupert Murdoch
Francis Wheen
14. Madness
Books
Bernard Donoughue, Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10, Jonathan Cape, 2005
——, The Heat of the Kitchen, Politico’s, 2003
Robert Edwards, Goodbye Fleet Street, Jonathan Cape, 1988
Bill Hagerty, Read All about It! 100 Sensational Years of the Daily Mirror, First Stone, 2003
Joe Haines, Kick ’Em Back: Wilson, Maxwell and Me, Grosvenor House, 2019
Roy Hattersley, Who Goes Home? Scenes from a Political Life, Little, Brown, 1995
Allister Mackie, The Trade Unionist and the Tycoon, Mainstream, 1992
Anne Robinson, Memoirs of an Unfit Mother, Little, Brown, 2001
Interviews
John Blake
Alastair Campbell
Andrew Golden
Bill Hagerty
Joe Haines
Mike Maloney
Andy McSmith
Peter Miller
Mike Molloy
15. In the Lair of the Black Bear
Interviews
Simon Grigg
Kate Hadley
Peter Jay
Magnus Linklater
Peter Mandelson
John Penrose
Eve Pollard
Anne Robinson
Yvonne Young
16. An Enormous Spread
Books
Nicholas Coleridge, Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons and How They Won the World, William Heinemann, 1993
Interviews
Gyles Brandreth
Martin Cheeseman
Nicholas Coleridge
Simon Grigg
Mike Maloney
18. Battle Rejoined
Interviews
Jeffrey Archer
Conrad Black
David Burnside
Peter Jay
Rupert Murdoch
Gerald Ronson
19. Homecomings
Books
Ronen Bergman, Rise Up and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, John Murray, 2018
Gerald Ronson, Leading from the Front: My Story, Mainstream, 2009
Interviews
Julia Langdon
Gerald Ronson
20. The Party of the Decade
Books
Robert Maxwell & Pergamon Press: 40 Years’ Service to Science, Technology and Education, Pergamon Press, 1988
Gerald Ronson, Leading from the Front: My Story, Mainstream, 2009
Interviews
Gyles Brandreth
Brian Cox
Peter Jay
Neil Kinnock
Julia Langdon
Peter Mandelson
Gerald Ronson
21. Listening In
Interviews
John Pole
23. Crossing the Line
Interviews
Janet Fielding
Roy Greenslade
Simon Grigg
Peter Jay
Mike Maloney
Deborah Maxwell
Ian Maxwell
Mike Molloy
24. Obsessed
Books
Leaders of the World. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: A Short Biography, Pergamon Press, 1977
Leaders of the World. Todor Zhivkov: Statesman and Builder of New Bulgaria, Pergamon Press, 1982
Interviews
Joe Haines
John Pole
Francis Wheen
25. Three Departures
Interviews
Simon Grigg
Peter Jay
27. Intangible Assets
Interviews
Neil Collins
Bernard Donoughue
Roy Greenslade
Tony Jackson
Maggie Urry
Archives
Public Record Office
28. Légumes du Maurier
Books
Betty Maxwell: A Tribute from Your Family and Friends on the Occasion of This Special Birthday, 1991, privately printed
Interv
iews
Jim Hoge
Ian Maxwell
29. Selling the Crown Jewels
Interviews
Richard Charkin
Anthony Cheetham
Beverley Guest
Tony Jackson
Christine Maxwell
Deborah Maxwell
Ian Maxwell
Anna Moon
Rupert Murdoch
Maggie Urry
30. Don’t You Worry About a Thing
Interviews
Beverley Guest
Carolyn Hinsey
Jim Hoge
Ken Lennox
Christine Maxwell
Ian Maxwell
Isabel Maxwell
Taki Theodoracopulos
Jim Willse
31. Hurricane Bob
Books
Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option, Faber & Faber, 1991
Interviews
Janet Fielding
Beverley Guest
Joe Haines
Carolyn Hinsey
David Jordan
Simon Walters
Ian Watson
Television
Panorama. The Max Factor, BBC1, 1991
32. A Long Way Down
Interviews
Alastair Campbell
Dominic Carman
Joe Haines
Carolyn Hinsey
Neil Kinnock
John Pole
33. Lost
Interviews
Ian Maxwell
Rabbi Feivish Vogel
34. Found
Interviews
John Jackson
Ken Lennox
35. The First Autopsy
Books
Chester Stern, Dr Iain West’s Casebook, Little, Brown, 1996
Interviews
John Jackson
Ken Lennox
36. A Hero of Our Time
Interviews
Conrad Black
Joe Haines
Max Hastings
Neil Kinnock
37. The Second Autopsy
Books
Chester Stern, Dr Iain West’s Casebook, Little, Brown, 1996
Interviews
Ken Lennox
38. The Four Horsemen
Books
Sir Roger Thomas and Raymond Turner, Mirror Group Newspapers plc: Investigation under Sections 432(2) and 442 of the Companies Act 1985, a report for the Department of Trade and Industry, Stationery Office, 2001
Interviews
Joe Haines
Ian Maxwell
John Pole
Charlie Wilson
39. Everything Must Go
Books
Jeffrey Archer, The Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, 1996
Juval Aviv, Max, Century, 2006
Eleanor Beckman, Never Alone with Rex Malone, Merlin, 1986
Interviews
Jeffrey Archer
Conrad Black
Harry Dalmeny
Ian Maxwell
40. The March of Time
Books
Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, The Assassination of Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, Robson Books, 2002
Interviews
Rupert Murdoch
41. Curtain Call
Press
Vanity Fair: Edward Klein, ‘The Fall of the House of Maxwell’, March 1992
Interviews
Beverley Guest
42. A True Scotsman
Interviews
Mike Molloy
Rupert Murdoch
Ian Watson
Index
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Anderson, Jack, 79–80
Andrew, Prince see York, Prince Andrew, Duke of
Anglo-Israeli Association, 236, 238
Archer, Jeffrey, 143–4, 273–4
Argentina, 28, 99
arms dealing, 219–23
Armstrong-Jones, Antony see Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Astone, Vincenza, 266
Atkins, Mark, 235
Auschwitz, 17–18, 41–2, 218
Austria, 29
Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, 8–9
Aviv, Juval, 274
Bacon, Francis, 64
Baddeley, Jean, 133, 134–5, 136, 172
Bagdikian, Bob, xiii–xiv
Bank of England, 236
Barrett, Arthur, 156
Barrett, Maudie, 120–23
Barry (dog), 19, 26, 122, 199
Basham, Brian, 100
Beckman, Eleanor (pseud. of Berry), 274
Bedford, Duke of, 78
Beirut, 6
Belgrade, 6
Bello, George, 80
Ben-Menashe, Ari, 219–20
Bender, John, 239
Berlin, 17, 19–20, 21–6, 170–73
Berlin, Isaiah, 78
Berlin Wall, fall of (1989), 166
Berlitz language school, 166
Bernstein, Carl, 127–8
Berry, Eleanor: background, 83; becomes obsessed with RM, 83–6; visits Maxwell House, 125; on meals at Headington Hill Hall, 134–5; attends party there, 158–9; on Andrea Martin, 177–8; tribute to Betty on her seventieth birthday, 200; attends sale of Headington Hill Hall contents, 270; writes novel about RM, 274
Berry, Nicholas, 83
La Bijude, 9
Bishopsgate Investment Management (BIM), 168, 195
Black, Conrad, 145, 268, 283–4
board games, 273
Bormann, Martin, 19
Brandreth, Gyles, 134, 154–5
Brezhnev, Leonid, 180
Bristow, Desmond, 27, 31
British Printing Corporation see Maxwell Communications Corporation
Brookes, Basil, 226
Budapest, 5–6, 18
Bulgaria, 179–81, 208–9
Bunn, Robert, 271
Bush, George H. W., 204, 247, 252, 269
Butterworth & Co., 30
Butterworth–Springer Ltd, 31
‘Buy British’ campaign, 60, 134
Callaghan, Jim, 127
Campbell, Alastair, 122, 230–31
Canada, 29–30
Canary Islands, 236–7, 241–4, 248, 256
Carman, Dominic, 229–30
Carman, George, 229–30
Carpenter, Les, 105, 106–7, 109
Carr, Clive, 68
Carr, Sir William, 65–6, 68–73
Carthew-Yorstoun, Brigadier Gary, 9, 14
Catto, Lord, 67
Ceaus¸escu, Nicolae and Elena, 216
cement, 29–30
Chambers’s Encyclopædia, 75, 76
Charles, Prince of Wales, 113, 149, 199
Cheetham, Anthony, 206
Cheeseman, Martin, 136
Chernobyl, 261 Chicago Tribune, xvii, xx
China, 28, 34
Christmas, 97–8, 100
Churchill, Winston, 7, 8, 139, 286
Citibank, 232
Clare, George, 20
Clark, Sir Robert, 232
Claverie, Julio, 247, 249, 251
Clean Air Act (1968), 82
Coggan, Lord, 261
Coldstream Guards band, 157
Cole, Bob, 203, 232
Cole, Edward, 55–6
Coleridge, Arthur, 31
Coleridge, Nicholas, 135
Commonwealth Games (Edinburgh, 1986), 122
Coutts, Lady, 89, 92
Coutts, Sir Walter, 89–90, 91–2
Coutts bank, 116
Crossman, Richard, 54, 56, 59, 102
Croxford, Peter, 26
Cudlipp, Hugh, 115
Cuomo, Mario, 213
Czechoslovakia: RM’s childhood in, 1–4; Nazis invade, 4; fate of Jews in Second World War, 17–18; RM does undercover work in, 22–3; RM’s ‘state’ visit, 151–3
Dacre, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord, 21
Daily Mail, 220, 221
Daily Mirror and Mirror Group (MGN): overview, xiii; RM takes over, 101, 103–12; RM manages, 113–23, 125–7; Who Dares Wins competition, 113–16, 120–21; free alcohol for journalists perk, 118; freefall in sales but soaring profits, 123, 125–6; RM bugs phones, 162–4; RM starts to borrow from pension fund, 167–9; Andrea Martin at, 170–83, 185–7; Greenslade becomes Editor, 171; senior staff go to Rhodes with RM, 175–6; Jay dismissed, 184; Martin leaves, 185–7; Spot-the-Ball competition, 193–4, 224; more pension fund borrowing, 206–7; floated on Stock Exchange, 208–10; RM uses funds to pay debts, 215; Guest tries to track down missing funds, 217–18; Davies fired because of indiscretions and arms-dealing allegations, 219–23; Stott takes over as Editor, 222; his black-tie dinners for senior staff, 179; Guest carries on digging into funds, 224–5; lunch for senior staff at Labour Party Conference, 230–31; RM reassures Guest over missing funds, 231; prepares to investigate missing funds, 232, 236; tribute to RM, 253; Fraud Squad investigates pension funds, 263–7; Holborn Circus offices demolished, 269; DTI report into pension funds published, 272–3; pensioners get partial compensation, 273, 283; Guest removed as Finance Director, 283