Douglas Thompson is the author of more than twenty books. A biographer, broadcaster and international journalist, he is a regular contributor to major newspapers and magazines worldwide. His books, published in a dozen languages, include the television-based anthology Hollywood People and a series of bestselling biographies. He divides his time between London and Los Angeles. Christine Margaret Sloane was Christine Keeler, who died in December 2017, the beautiful young model at the very centre of the sex-and-spying scandal that brought down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the so-called 'Profumo Affair'.
"''A sultry brunette with wistful eyes and stunning legs . . . That icon of the ditzy Sixties."" --Sunday Telegraph ''Proves that truth really can be stranger than fiction.'' --Daily Express"