John Pearson Bücher

Die Entführung des 16-jährigen Millionen-Erben Paul Getty schockiert Menschen auf der ganzen Welt. Als die Entführer 17 Millionen Dollar Lösegeld fordern, wendet sich Pauls Mutter Gail Harris an ihren Schwiegervater. Doch der milliardenschwere Unternehmer Jean Paul Getty weigert sich, für die Freilassung seines Enkels zu zahlen. Während Paul in der Gefangenschaft seiner Kidnapper immer grausameren Folterungen ausgesetzt wird, wartet die ganze Welt auf eine Reaktion der Familie Getty. Und Gail Harris ist nicht bereit, den Kampf um das Leben ihres Sohnes aufzugeben. John Pearson begibt sich in dieser Biografie auf die Spuren einer Familie, deren Reichtum Fluch und Segen für viele Generationen bedeutete. Bittere Fehden, unerwartete Wendungen und facettenreiche Figuren - dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit in die fesselnde Welt der Superreichen.

When the Englishman learned that someone was asking about him, he introduced himself to Pearson, who persuaded him to write his story - a story even more extraordinary than that of the Krays. Because the Englishman is the only man of non-Italian blood to be admitted to the heart of the Mafia.

John Pearson, author of The Profession of Violence, the definitive bestseller on the Krays, re-examines the bizarre and frightening story of the Kray twins including new revelations about their criminal past, the trial and their extraordinary activities in jail.

A brand-new paperback edition with a new introduction, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this fan-favourite book.

"Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's 1960s gangland with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks, even today. Building an empire of organised crime on a scale never done before or since, the brothers swindled, extorted, terrorised and brutally murdered. In this classic account john Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and charts their gruesome career to their eventual downfall and imprisonment for life."--Back cover.

Analyzes the royal family's management of its scandals and errant members and its orchestration of information--flattering and unflattering--disseminated through mass communications

Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell were the children of possibly the most selfish and mismatched couple in the annals of the British aristocracy. John Pearson describes the public and private live of this strangest and most flamboyant of literary families.