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In Plain Sight - The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Paperback)
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In Plain Sight - The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction
Dagger Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black
Prize Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find
the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a
period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest,
he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in
Leeds and Scarborough, lunched with him at venues ranging from
humble transport cafes to the Athenaeum club in London and, most
memorably, joined him for a short cruise aboard the QE2. Dan
thought his quest had come to an end in October 2011 when Savile's
golden coffin was lowered into a grave dug at a 45-degree angle in
a Scarborough cemetery. He was wrong. In the last two and a half
years, Dan has been interviewing scores of people, many of them
unobtainable while Jimmy was alive. What he has discovered was that
his instincts were right all along and behind the mask lay a
hideous truth. Jimmy Savile was not only complex, damaged and
controlling, but cynical, calculating and predatory. He revelled in
his status as a Pied Piper of youth and used his power to abuse the
vulnerable and underage, all the while covering his tracks by
moving into the innermost circles of the establishment.
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