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The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy - The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue (Paperback)
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The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy - The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue (Paperback)
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Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian,
gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the
fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in
Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a
young Errol Flynn in Sydney and on to the French Riviera in the
heady years leading up to World War II. With his dashing good looks
and charm, Freddie lived a swashbuckling life, quickly figuring out
his path to easy fortune was through lonely rich women. World War
II didn't stop Freddie's hedonistic pursuits - he skipped
enlistment for Australia and Britain to party on in Hollywood,
where he renewed his friendship with the now infamous Errol Flynn.
Always short of cash, Freddie smuggled guns and diamonds on his
yacht between California and Mexico and was rumoured to have worked
as a spy. It was a life lived large and Freddie's death in 1951 was
under the most mysterious circumstances off the coast of Morocco:
his body was found naked and scalped . . . Frank Walker,
bestselling author of The Tiger Man of Vietnam and Maralinga, has
for the first time uncovered the complete, outrageous and
incredible true story of Freddie McEvoy, Australia's daredevil
Lothario. 'Freddie was one of the great livers of life. He lived it
the way he saw it - he didn't give a hoot.' Errol Flynn 'Pleasure
is my business.' Freddie McEvoy 'an extraordinary yarn . . . finely
researched' Sun-Herald on Frank Walker's Ghost Platoon
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