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John Pearson


Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

John Pearson is a renowned author and journalist who books include The Profession of Violence, his famous biography of the Kray twins which won the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award, The Life of Ian Fleming, The Life of James Bond, The Sitwells and Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty and The Cult of Violence.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 3,309 ratings · 417 reviews · 349 distinct works • Similar authors
All the Money in the World
3.62 avg rating — 1,704 ratings — published 1995 — 26 editions
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Deep Nature: Photographs fr...
4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Profession of Violence: Ris...
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The Marx Brothers
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Shaver
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Without Dogma or Creed
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
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Xprofession of Violence 66 Bks
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Professione criminale: La L...
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To Be Nobody Else
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