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A major source for the BBC drama The Reckoning
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
'An astonishing account' Observer
'A compulsive, colourful and chilling read' Sunday Times
'An extraordinary book' Mail on…
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Dan Davies is a journalist and had virtually unrestricted access to the paeodophile celebrity, Jimmy Savile. It exposed him as an abuser, serial paedophile, liar, bully and an inveigler into the lives of influential members of Royalty, Politics and the BBC, able to use his pop star status to continue his perverted life. It is a well written expose of this monster.
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