MR BARNES AND THE HUNT FOR 'LUCKY': My life in crime

By Chester Stern

Journalist, writer and broadcaster Chester Stern enjoyed a unique career. From Head of Scotland Yard's Press Bureau, and Chief Crime Correspondent of The Mail on Sunday newspaper, to Corporate Affairs Director of Premier League football club Fulham and Controller of Public Affairs for Harrods, his professional life was quite unlike any other.Along the way he handled the world's media at more than a hundred murder scenes and major incidents, including terrorist bombings, shootings, sieges and riots, acted as resident police spokesman at Heathrow Airport, and became the first spin-doctor for Traffic Wardens.As a specialist news reporter, feature writer and investigative journalist with an international brief he travelled the world tracking down fugitive British villains and probing criminal activity beyond the reach of Scotland Yard.He once worked on behalf of the Kremlin in a daring undercover operation to negotiate and repatriate Russian soldiers captured during the Afghan War.A lecture tour on terrorism and the media in the USA followed a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study American government information services - working in the press offices of the White House, the Pentagon, the FBI, and the State Department. He has engaged with MI5, the CIA, South African Intelligence and the SAS and acted as media adviser to colourful Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed. This is his extraordinary tale. A story from a bygone era. A story of old-style Fleet Street journalism - before the advent of the internet and social media - when when sniffing out exclusive newspaper stories took intelligence, imagination, skill and not a little courage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1790342228
• ISBN13: 9781790342228
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"