About the Author

Douglas Thompson is the author of more than 20 books. A biographer, broadcaster and internaional journalist, hi is a regualr contributor to major newspapers and magazines worldwide. His books published in a dozen languages, include bestselling biographies of Madonna, Clint Eastwood, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dudly Moore, John Travolta, Nicholas Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio. He collaborated with Christine Keeler to tell the full story of the Profumo Affair in Secrets and Lies, and working with eminent psychotherapist Pauline Sutcliffe, told the poignant story of her brother Stuart, who named and helped found the Beatles with John Lennon, in The Beatles' Shadow. His book The Hustlers, about gangsters and gambling in 1960s London, is being developed as a major motion picture and was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary. His latest successes include Shadowland, about the American Mafia in London and Mafia Princess, which are being adapted for film. Douglas Thompson divides his time between a medieval English village and California, where he was based as a Fleet Street foreign correspondent and columnist for more than 20 years.