Fayed: The Unauthorized Biography

by Tom Bower

Book Overview

Mohamed Al Fayed, flamboyant tycoon, condemned by DTI inspectors as "guilty of deception on a grand scale," has always bitterly attacked these findings. This is the story of the poor boy from Egypt... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033374554X
• ISBN13: 9780333745540
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: MacMillan Kids
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.8" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Where is your pride???

You have applied several times to get the British nationality, and at all times you have been rejected. You lost your son in a tragic 'accident'!!! Yet, you are still living in the UK, cursing the Queen of England, her husband (in specific) and her son Prince Charles.... Why don't you go back home? To Egypt... You can read, I suppose, between the lines. Sooner or later, you, and all those who had been given British Nationality will find out they are being cornered to emigrate. Right???

Comprehensive Bio of Fayed and his Business

This was a really comprehensive biography of the life of Fayed. The book takes you through his lowly Egyptian origin-- his poor family, and first job selling Coca-Cola on the street--through his first successes, and his first marriage. Then the book shows the reader how he completely "remade" his public image, his family, and ancestors!Most of the book is slower reading because it details all of his business dealings extensively. But that is really what Fayed's life is all about-BUSINESS. I did not enjoy this book as much as Bower's other books, such as the one he did on Princess Diana, but that is because of the type of life Fayed led, not because Bower's writing is not as good. I just want readers to know that this book is NOT read easily, or quickly. But it will answer ALL questions about Fayed, who he is, his life, his brothers, his business associates-friends and enemies--his business dealings, personal dealings, AND what caused all the hoopla about the British Secret Service assassinating Dodi and Diana. Part of it was the "Arab psyche," and part of it was Fayed's effort to take any focus off the driver's inebriated condition. This book answered ALL of my questions about Fayed, and I am glad I purchased the book. If you are interested in Fayed, by all means, buy this book.

Brilliant

I would like to say that this is one of the best books I have read for a long time. Full of factual information and well written. It kept me enthralled and interested from begining to end.