Branson - Tom Bower

Richard Branson is Britain's favourite businessman, a brand himself. But is he a buccaneering balloonist or a single-minded profiteer? Here, in Tom Bower's sensational biography, is the full story of the Virgin man: his friendships, his ambitions, his drug-taking, law-breaking and steam-rolling tactics. Not the life of a glittering saint, the scourge of corporate goliaths, this is a tale of greed, ambition and ruthless self-creation. For the man who wanted to run the lottery is, up close, something of a lottery himself.