Unknown Maxwell, The

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited a division of Pan Macmillan Publishers Limited BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: His Astonishing Secret Lives Revealed by his Aide and Close Companion. FRONT COVER: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF: Rex Features. CONTENTS: ONE 'Sometimes I think I should just end it all.' TWO 'All I can remember of my childhood is the awful feeling of hunger.' THREE 'It looked as though the good life would never end. But now it is about to.' FOUR 'Leave me alone, will you, woman!' FIVE 'Something must be done. I can't go on like this.' SIX 'I've decided to appoint myself Editor-in-Chief.' SEVEN 'I'm not like ordinary men; I don't have time to take care of myself.' EIGHT 'You have my word that you can trust me.' NINE 'Gorbachov treated me like a Head of State.' TEN 'They'll wish they'd never been born.' ELEVEN 'If there is a way back after death, then I will be the one to find it.' SYNOPSIS: When Nicholas Davies was not in Robert Maxwell's company, he was frequently talking to him by telephone. The calls often began with his boss's sonorously intoned words: "Where do you think I am?" Maxwell could be anywhere, in any continent, often involved in clandestine, nefarious, occasionally illegal activities. Davies was no ordinary Maxwell employee. He did not have to undergo the humiliations and bullying meted out to all and sundry from the most senior Fleet Street editors to the teaboy. His was a unique and privileged position as one of Maxwell's few companions and confidants outside the immediate family. And, during the period which Davies writes about, he knew more about the man than even his wife or sons, Kevin and Ian. It was Davies who frequently accompanied Maxwell on his international jaunts and who was a first-hand witness to all the dealings which took place behind closed doors in presidential palaces. It was not by virtue of his position as Foreign Editor of the Daily Mirror that he was so close: Maxwell trusted him, behaving unguardedly and sharing secrets of his life. It was to Davies that Maxwell confided his thoughts on suicide months before his death. Davies was party to extraordinary events and conversations and in this book he provides an unknown and previously undreamed of dimension to Maxwell's life of greed, self-indulgence and grim determination to succeed. There were also intense love affairs, set against appalling maltreatment of his long-suffering wife and family. His capacity for extortion, theft and ruthlessness was even greater than imagined. Maxwell had direct contact with many world leavers--Thatcher, Bush, Gorbachev, Kissinger, Mitterrand and Kohl to name the principal ones. His secret dealings with them, and also with the KGB, are one of the more fascinating aspects of Davies's story. Other books written about Maxwell concentrate on his business dealings, achievements and disasters. This is the first to provide a true portrait of the man himself. Nicholas Davies was born in Warwickshire and went to boarding school aged six. After a formal education he served as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's Private Army. He began his journalistic career with the Birmingham Post & Mail before joining Mirror Group newspapers in 1961. Save for a three-year round-the-world tour, he worked with the Mirror Group as a foreign correspondent, investigative reporter and for fourteen years as Foreign Editor. He is also the author of Diana: A Princess and her Troubled Marriage.. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.