| When in October 1982 the flamboyantauto executive John DeLorean wasarrested for possession of over sixteenmillion dollars worth of cocaine, the worldwas aghast and fascinated. Seldom doesreal life furnish so bald and precipitous apersonal downfall. Until then, his careerhad been the stuff of legend. Until now, noone has eniirely understood the manbehind the legend. Few stars have shone more brightly thanhis: he was an "A" student who didn t needto crack a book, a brilliant engineer whosingle-handedly saved Pontiac, a visionaryentrepreneur who shot to the top of GMand then left it behind, a reputed Holly-wood swinger, and a charismatic million-aire who seemed to care about the littlepeople who worked for him. But there wasa darker side to the DeLorean story, a sidethat more and more clouded his life, untilhe was forced into what most believe was alast desperate attempt to save the two-year-old auto factory in Northern Irelandand its startling gull-winged products.Like everything he did, DeLorean s fallwas larger than life- but the reasons for itwere at work .just as powerfnlly in hisambitious rise as in his dramatic downfall. From the shattered fragments of DeLo-rean s acts and dreams, investigative jour-nalist Hillel Levin-who begun to lookclosely at the truth behind the image ayear before anyone else did-has piecedtogether a fascinating picture of the manbehind this contemporary myth. From thebeginning, DeLorean s flight was fueledby a remarkable talent for financial leger-demain and corporate intrigue. Throughmeticulous research and interviews withthe players in DeLorean s inner circle,I,evin tracks the couri cases and the law-suits that accompanied his ascent, disen-tangles his convohited and bizarre busi-ness schemes, explores the labyrinth ofholding companies and paper corpora-tions that channeled huge sums of other |
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