here are some quotes from the paperback "Thatchers Fortunes" by Mark Hollingsworth and Paul Halloran that i found interesting and so might you(Mainstream Publishers 2006)
The book is about Mark Thatcher son of ex UK PM Margaret Thatcher
And later on Margaret and Denis Thatcher too
The book brings all the intrigue into the open
Presenting a totally different picture altogether than that given to the public-authentic too
Quotes:
Mark later remarked that he passed the time by reading the same book twice-The Fifth Horseman,a thriller about a plot by Colonel Gaddafi to blow up New York City with an atomic bomb
At the time of his meeting with Thatcher, Captain Money was being investigated for embezzlement and theft
He is so secretive that when he is in London he travels around in a privately owned black taxi cab for the sake of anonymity
One of Landon and Bayley's unofficial agents was Mark Thatcher. In the mid 1980' they consulted him on some arms deals and visited him many times in Dallas,Texas-----
Whatever the exact fees,Landons vast wealth ,which by 2003 exceeded the Queens fortune 0f 275 million
(pounds UK)
They were talking about Argentina now, not Peru, and here was Thatchers son possibly involved in a deal with a country that Mrs Thatcher had declared war on.
The Syrian middleman also liaised directly with Prince Bandar, who was negotiating with Margaret Thatcher
The Emperor chairman had also lost none of his knack of hiring political muscle to strengthen his sprawling business empire. In 1994 he recruited Bob Hawke ,who untill his replacement by Paul Keating in December 1991 had been Australia's longest serving prime minister, as a non executive director, largely to develope the company's racing and casino interests."
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