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Hayes, Julian.
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Stonehouse, John Thomson, 1925-1988.
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Hayes, Julian.
Stonehouse, John Thomson, 1925-1988.
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Stonehouse : cabinet minister, fraudster, spy /
Julian
Hayes
.
by
Hayes
,
Julian
.
Robinson, 2021.
Call #:
941.085092 S881h
Subjects
Stonehouse, John Thomson, 1925-1988.
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Fraud -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781472146540 (hc)
Description:
374 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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 Stonehouse's 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 Stonehouse's story, including Czech defector Josef Frolík's claim that he was a spy.
Hayes
has unearthed secret reports in the archives in Prague written by Stonehouse's 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."--Publisher.
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