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Bedtime Stories
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The scandal that set the Sixties swinging... When Secretary of State for War John Profumo met night-club 'hostess' Christine Keeler, little did they know that their love affair would bring down a government. With a caste featuring high-class call-girls and corrupt politicians, Russian spies and Jamaican drug-dealers, and locations ranging from English country houses to Soho jazz-clubs, this is a tale of sex and espionage and political corruption, a saga of criminal trial, disgrace and suicide for Profumo and the circle that surrounded him. And all they'd ever wanted was a little harmless fun...
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S.J. Hawley
Author biogs are only worth reading if you're Jack London, William Burroughs or Ernest Hemingway. Like most writers, the only interesting events in my life take place on paper. In which case, I am a piquant mixture of ageing Lothario, Special Forces operative and underworld sociopath, masquerading in real life as a white-collar graduate drone and suburban commuter.
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