Douglas Thompson
Author, Broadcaster, International Journalist
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Drawing on unseen police files, Marilyn Monroe’s private diary and first-hand testimony, this book proves that Robert Kennedy was directly responsible for her death. It details Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous personal involvement with him and his brother, President John Kennedy. The new evidence and testimony is provided to Douglas Thompson by Mike Rothmiller who, as an agent of the Organised Crime Intelligence Division (OCID) of the LAPD, had direct personal access to hundreds of secret files on exactly what happened at Marilyn Monroe’s Californian home on August 5, 1962. With his training and specialist knowledge, Rothmiller used that unseen information to get to the heart of the matter, to the people who were there the night Marilyn Monroe died―two of whom played major roles in the cover-up―and the wider conspiracy to protect the Kennedys at all costs.
There will be those with doubts, but to them, the lawman―who has advised the White House, the Pentagon and international crime agencies―says the printed, forensic and oral evidence are totally convincing. He insists: ‘If I presented my evidence in any court of law, I’d get a conviction.’
Clint Eastwood
The Definitive Biography
The Hustlers is ‘a riotous journey back into the heady days of 50s and 60s London. With a cast of characters ranging from safecracker Eddie Chapman to the reckless Earl of Derby, from croupier Louis the Rat to Lord Lucan, it vividly recreates the exploits of the gamblers and gangsters whose lives collide in the clubs and pubs of Mayfair. ‘ ‘Intriguing.. [a] a Hogarthian tableau of a generation gone by,’
—Ray Connolly, the Daily Mail.
The Hustlers is at present being developed as a television series.
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler:
‘A sultry brunette with wistful eyes and stunning legs, who raised the temperature . . . that icon of the ditzy Sixties’ – Sunday Telegraph
Christine Keeler died in December 2017, aged seventy-five. Her death made it possible to reissue her story in 2019 with new material she did not wish published in her lifetime making it the definitive account of both her life and the so-called ‘Profumo Affair’. It voices her thoughts on the deaths of Mandy Rice-Davis and of ‘Lucky’ Gordon, the man who terrorised and haunted her. BBC One’s six-part TV drama, The Trial of Christine Keeler, stars Sophie Cookson who narrates the audio [CD and stream] version of Secrets and Lies.
Clint Eastwood: Douglas Thompson first met Clint Eastwood on a Pan-Am flight from London to Los Angeles in 1974 and has interviewed the legendary star countless times over the years. His first book on the star, Clint Eastwood- Sexual Cowboy was published in 1992. The book has been updated several times, Eastwood’s fame never diminishing, with his latest film, Richard Jewell, released [ December 13, 2019] in time for the 2020 Oscar season.
Shadowland is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an elaborate Mafia plan to ‘invade’ Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead.
The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also the world of gambling, guns and gangsters. Several veterans of the era were astonished to survive and felt protected enough – now that most of the killers are themselves dead – to reveal the taboo details and secrets of one of history’s greatest criminal conspiracies, and reveal how and why world champion boxer Freddie Mills really died.
Shadowland is at present being developed as a television series.