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       Tom Bower

       MAXWELL

       THE FINAL VERDICT

       Copyright

      William Collins

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.WilliamCollinsBooks.co.uk

      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2012; updated version published 2020

      Copyright © Tom Bower 1996; 2020

      Cover photograph © Getty Images

      Tom Bower asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Information on previously published material appears here.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007292875

      Ebook Edition © July 2020 ISBN: 9780007394999

      Version: 2020-06-08

       Dedication

       To Sophie

       Epigraph

      You are my teacher and all my life you have tried to demonstrate the principles underlying every action or inaction … Above all, you have given me the sense of excitement of having dozens of balls in the air and the thrill of seeing some of them land right.

      KEVIN MAXWELL, written to his father in 1988

      The Maxwell Foundation will be one of the richest of its kind in the world.

      JOE HAINES, 1988

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Preface

      Introduction

       1 The Autopsy – 9 November 1991

       6 Vanity – March 1991

       7 Flotation – April 1991

       8 A Suicide Pill – May 1991

       9 Two Honeymoons – June 1991

       10 Buying Silence – July 1991

       11 Showdown – August 1991

       12 ‘Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul’ – September 1991

       13 Whirlwind – October 1991

       14 Death – 2 November 1991

       15 Deception – 6 November 1991

       16 Meltdown – 21 November 1991

       17 The Trial – 30 May 1995

       Epilogue

       Keep Reading

       Notes

       Company Plan

       Dramatis Personae

       Glossary of Abbreviations

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       Preface

      On 12 May 1989, Peter Jay signed a short letter marked ‘Private and Confidential’ addressed to George Potter OBE, a director of Control Risks, one of Britain’s leading private detective agencies. Jay, the chief of staff to Robert Maxwell, thanked Potter, a former police officer, for ‘your letter and for the time you gave to meeting me and preparing it’.

      Potter’s letter had described his surveillance of ‘the location and the levels of background radiation in the area’. Potter was referring in cryptic fashion to a surreptitious reconnaissance mission which he had undertaken around my home in Hampstead, north-west London. He continued: ‘Extremely sophisticated equipment does exist which might overcome the technical problems. Its acquisition would cost an estimated £50,000.’ The private detective was describing a scanner which would emit rays capable of penetrating my home and ‘reading’ the contents of my computer’s hard disc.

      Wisely, Potter cautioned Jay about the problems. First, the detective wanted to be paid in advance

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