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Books > Fiction > True stories
When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began. First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown appears here with a stunning final chapter on Begelman's post-Columbia career as he continued to dazzle and defraud...until his last hours in a Hollywood hotel room, where his story dramatically and poignantly would end.
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The Balancer
(Hardcover)
James Geissinger; Edited by Robert Doherty; Illustrated by W B Devarieux
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R634
Discovery Miles 6 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Sheltering Desert tells the story of two German geologists,
Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, who were sent to the former South
West Africa in 1935 to do research on the Naukluft. After the
outbreak of the Second World War, they chose to live and survive
like Bushmen in the Namib Desert rather than face internment for
the duration of the war.
The twelve-year rampage of "Missoula Mauler" Wayne Nance-and the
shocking end to his murder spree To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a
furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable,
considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the
"Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of
sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and
1986. Nance's only requirement for murder was accessibility-a
preacher's wife, a teenage runaway, a female acquaintance, a
married couple. Putting on a friendly facade, he could easily gain
his victims' trust. Then, one September night, thirty-year-old
Nance pushed his luck, preying on a couple who lived to tell the
tale. A true story with an incredible twist, written by former Wall
Street Journal editor John Coston and complete with photos, To Kill
and Kill Again reveals the disturbing compulsions of a charming
serial killer who fooled everyone he knew, stumped the authorities,
terrified a community, and nearly got away with it.
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