Description: Stonehouse : Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy, Hardcover by Hayes, Julian, ISBN 1472146549, ISBN-13 9781472146540, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned.
Then he was found - on the other side of the world, in Australia - and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man; also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures.
Was it a mental breakdown as he later claimed? Or were there more sinister reasons for his dramatic disappearance?
This is the definitive biography of Stonehouse, written by Julian Hayes, who, as the son of Stonehouses nephew and lawyer, Michael Hayes, is uniquely placed to tell the story of this charismatic but deeply flawed politician. As a criminal lawyer in London, Hayes has used his in-depth knowledge and experience of the criminal courts, not least the Old Bailey, where the Stonehouse trial took place, to forensically examine Stonehouses story, including Czech defector Josef Frol?ks claim that he was a spy.
Hayes has unearthed secret reports in the archives in Prague written by Stonehouses former spymasters. He has also gleaned much from family members and lawyers involved in the trial and from the trial documents and other government papers held in archives in the UK and Australia.
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Book Title: Stonehouse : Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
Topic: Political, Europe / Great Britain / General
Item Height: 9.5 in
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 22.8 Oz
Author: Julian Hayes
Item Length: 1.1 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
