000			02644cam a2200349 i 4500
003			UK-LoPHL
005			20230406163203.0
006			m d0101
007			ta
008			210930s2021 enkac o 000 0beng d
015			_aGBC173881 _2bnb
016	7		_a020188985 _2Uk
020			_a9781472146540 _qhardback
035			_a(OCoLC)1263808775
040			_aUKMGB _beng _cUKMGB _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dUK-LoPHL _erda
082	0	4	_a920
100	1		_aHayes, Julian, _eauthor. _9123748
245	1	0	_aStonehouse : _bcabinet minister, fraudster, spy / _cJulian Hayes.
264		1	_aLondon : _bRobinson, _c2021.
300			_aix, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, photographs (black and white)
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. Then he was found - on the other side of the world, in Australia - and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man; also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures. Was it a mental breakdown as he later claimed? Or were there more sinister reasons for his dramatic disappearance? This is the definitive biography of Stonehouse, written by Julian Hayes, who, as the son of Stonehouse's nephew and lawyer, Michael Hayes, is uniquely placed to tell the story of this charismatic but deeply flawed politician. As a criminal lawyer in London, Hayes has used his in-depth knowledge and experience of the criminal courts, not least the Old Bailey, where the Stonehouse trial took place, to forensically examine Stonehouse's story, including Czech defector Josef Frolik's claim that he was a spy. Hayes has unearthed secret reports in the archives in Prague written by Stonehouse's former spymasters. He has also gleaned much from family members and lawyers involved in the trial and from the trial documents and other government papers held in archives in the UK and Australia."-- _cTaken from book-cover.
600	1	0	_aStonehouse, John Thomson, _d1925-1988 _esubject. _9123747
650		0	_aPoliticians _zGreat Britain _xBiography. _942890
650		0	_aSpies _zGreat Britain _xBiography. _947000
650		0	_aFraud _zGreat Britain. _932343
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y1964-1979 _916344
942			_2ddc _cBK _n0
999			_c78008 _d78008