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Gerard Lee Bevan was the model of an Edwardian swell - arrogant, smooth, well-connected and highly cultured. He married money and influence - his wife Sophie Kenrick was a cousin of the future prime minister Neville Chamberlain - and over the years he kept a string of showgirl mistresses. But his was a success built on fraud and deception, and eventually Bevan could sustain the fiction no longer. After a series of desperate swerves, he fled the country on 8 February 1922, abandoning his family and leaving his stockbroking and insurance empire in ruins. Thus began an extraordinary flight across Europe - disguised as a Frenchman, using a stolen passport, with his mistress at his side. His subsequent arrest in Vienna, and the Old Bailey trial that followed, would shock the entire country. 'Fortune's Spear' is a parable of the way in which the prospect of easy money draws risk-takers in every era into a spiral of greed and deceit. Bevan may have been forgotten, but he richly deserves to be remembered. Drawing on c ontemporary evidence and told with novelistic flair, Martin Vander Weyer's gripping biography brings him vividly to life.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Biography & True Stories True stories True crime

• Pełny tytuł: Fortune's Spear
• Autor: Martin Weyer
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 352
• EAN: 9781907642319
• ISBN: 1907642315
• ID: 04408746
• Wydawca: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Waga: 612 g
• Wymiary: 237 × 159 × 32 mm
• Data wydania: 13. October 2011

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