No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone - Softcover

Bower, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571269362 ISBN 13: 9780571269365

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2012

Synopsis

Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the major player he is today. He has finally decided to reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on the racetrack, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts. Surprisingly he has granted access to his inner circle to Tom Bower, the most controversial biographer of them all...

The result is a unique story of a simple, driven man who unlike shady tycoons offers an intriguing insight into the sport, business and the human spirit.

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Review:

'Bower concludes that Ecclestone thrives when he's in trouble, in marriage as well as business. His company is complex but the business plan is simple: it depends on Ecclestone living for ever.' --Daily Telegraph

'Bower ...reveals the Formula One family as a true nest of vipers in which Ecclestone is supreme.' --Sunday Times

A vastly insightful work that peels away the layers guarding this most usually protected and inscrutable of men ... For once, though, with this riveting biography, Ecclestone's levers have deserted him. Underneath his skin, away from the negotiating table, he is exposed as human after all.' --Chris Blackhurst, Evening Standard

'An unusually fair-minded and thorough portrait of a very peculiar man ... this is a marvellous book, with a great story to tell, and many wonderful smaller stories as well.' -- Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail

'We all suspected that much of the mystery was created by Bernie himself ... No one know the whole story, but everyone wanted to know. Here, at last, was a major-league investigative biographer who would expose all. The result does not disappoint. It is a fascinating story, brilliantly told.' --Max Mosely, Spectator

A vastly insightful work that peels away the layers guarding this most usually protected and inscrutable of men ... For once, though, with this riveting biography, Ecclestone's levers have deserted him. Underneath his skin, away from the negotiating table, he is exposed as human after all. --Chris Blackhurst, Evening Standard

Book Description:

No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone is Tom Bower's bestselling biography of the international Formula One tycoon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571269362
• ISBN 13: 9780571269365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448