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Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britains Most Notorious Media Baron
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Winner of the UKs 2022 Costa Prize for BiographyA portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures in the annals of whitecollar crime. . . . A wellresearched, compelling book that uncovers many mysteries about a media tycoon.Kirkus ReviewsFrom the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal, a thrilling and dramatic truelife account of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious media moguls of all time: Robert Maxwell.In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailing New York Daily News. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph, and patrons of the hottest restaurant in Manhattan gave him a standing ovation while he dined. Ten months later, Maxwell disappeared off that same yacht in the middle of the night and was later found dead in the water. As John Preston reveals in this entertaining and revealing biography, Maxwells death was as mysterious as his remarkable life.A tightly paced, addictive saga of ambition, hubris, narcissism, greed, power, and intrigue, Fall recounts Maxwells rise and fall and rise and fall again. Preston weaves backwards and forwards in time to examine the forces that shaped Maxwell, including his childhood as a Jew in occupied Eastern Europe through his failed political ambitions in the 1960s which ended in accusations of financial doubledealing, and his resurrection as a media moguland on to the family legacy he left behind, including his daughter Ghislaine Maxwell.Preston chronicles Maxwells allencompassing rivalry with Rupert Murdocha battle that ruined Maxwell financially, threatened his sanity and lead, indirectly, to his death. Did Maxwell have a heart attack and fall overboard? Was his death suicide? Or was he murderedpossibly by Mossad or the KGB? Few in the twentieth century journeyed as far from his roots as Robert Maxwell. Yet, as Fall reveals, no one, however rich and powerful, can entirely escape their past.
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