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Jeffrey Robinson (born October 19, 1945) is an American author of 30 books.


Early life

Born in Long Beach, New York, Robinson is a graduate of
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in Philadelphia (1967). While still at school, he wrote for television and radio, including a weekly children's show, and was on the writing staff of
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, a nationally televised daily talk show. He continued working in the media during his four-year stint as an officer in the United States Air Force. Charged with running a press and public relations office for five generals at the height of the Vietnam War, he hosted a weekly talk show, scripted and directed several film projects, wrote short stories for national magazines and moonlighted as a disc jockey on local radio. His magazine credits include ''
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''; his newspaper credits include ''
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'' and the '' International Herald Tribune''. In Britain his feature journalism has appeared in ''
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'', among others. He moved to the UK in 1982, with more than 600 published stories and articles to his credit, to concentrate on writing books. In 2007, he returned to New York and now divides his time between the US and the UK.


Non-fiction

Considered "one of world's leading experts on international financial crime" Robinson wrote his 1995 investigative tour de force, ''The Laundrymen'', in which he uncovered the true extent of global money laundering. The book reveals how hundreds of billions of dirty dollars are derived mainly from the drug trade, then reinvested throughout the world by otherwise legitimate businessmen, lawyers, accountants and bankers. '' Business Week'' described it as " indictment of governments and banks". Robinson scripted and hosted several television documentaries, including one for the
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, and another for
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in France and Germany. Both have been shown in the United States. In 1998, he published a sequel to ''The Laundrymen'', titled ''The Merger – How Organized Crime is Taking Over The World''. In it, Robinson described the disturbing lengths that transnational organized criminals go in order to build multi-national corporations; explained why organized crime is the major beneficiary of globalization; and claimed that transnational organized criminals have become the most powerful special interest group on the planet. Five years later he published another book in this series: ''The Sink'', about crime, terrorism and dirty money. Between 1986–1994, he published three biographies: ''Yamani – The Inside Story'', about Saudi Arabia's former Minister of Oil
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; ''Rainier & Grace'', written about and with the cooperation of Monaco’s sovereign family and reissued in 2014 as ''Grace of Monaco'' after the fictionalized 2014 French biopic of
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's life; and ''Bardot – Two Lives'', also written with the cooperation of
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. His other non-fiction titles include: ''The Risk Takers'' (his first UK best seller) which highlighted the high-fliers of City finance, recounting their tales of money, ego and power; ''The Minus Millionaires'', a sequel to ''The Risk Takers'', in which he wrote about ‘risk takers’ who had lost fortunes; ''The End of the American Century'', for which Robinson gained access to secret archives in the former Soviet Union to reveal hidden agendas of the Cold War; ''The Hotel'', stories gathered over five months as a fly on the wall in what is, arguably, the best hotel in the world; ''The Manipulators – A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy'', exposing the marketing world’s "hidden persuaders" 40 years after Vance Packard; and ''Prescription Games'', an insider’s view of the global pharmaceutical industry, where science and marketing are deliberately kept apart and where, all too often, profit dictates who lives and who dies. In 2005, he wrote his first "as told to" with an old college friend,
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: Petro's autobiography, ''Standing Next to History – An Agent's Life Inside the
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''. In 2007, Robinson co-authored
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's autobiography, documenting Wood's years as a rock star and member of the most famous band in the world,
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. In 2009, he published his third "as told to": ''Leading From The Front'', co-written with British entrepreneur,
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. His treatise on fraud, ''There's a Sucker Born Every Minute – A Revelation Of Audacious Frauds, Scams, And Cons – How To Spot Them, How To Stop Them'' was published in 2010. ''The Takedown'', subtitled "A Suburban Mom, A Coal Miner's Son and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel", was released in August 2011. ''Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – Following The Money'', the first in a series of eBooks on dirty money, crime, fraud and corruption was published in 2012. The second book in this series, ''Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – The Swiss Wash Whiter'' was published in 2013.


Fiction

Robinson has written six novels: ''Pietrov and Other Games''; ''The Ginger Jar''; ''The Margin of the Bulls''; ''The Monk’s Disciples''; ''A True and Perfect Knight'' (under film option); and ''
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Radio and television

Robinson has appeared on
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,
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,
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, BBC Breakfast,
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, ITN,
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, CBC,
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, Sky News,
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'' and
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. He has scripted and narrated various series for
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, including one on radio stars Amos and Andy, and one on American soap operas, "Tomorrow at the Same Time". He also wrote the BBC Scotland's Radio Three Drama of the Week, "Rossum’s Cyber Cafe", based on the
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play " RUR". He conceived and wrote the pilot for the British crime drama series, ''Tightrope'', for Yorkshire Television. He also wrote the pilot episode for a new British series on financial crime called ''Follow The Money''. Other television scripts include ''Sister Banjo'' and ''Notice of Claim''. He wrote and presented a training film for financial investigators for the Metropolitan Police in London England titled "The Common Factor". He has scripted a film version of his biography of Brigitte Bardot, called ''Bardot''; and a made-for-television movie version of ''Standing Next to History'', a dramatic re-telling of the special relationship between the president of the United States ( Ronald Reagan) and his
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agent (
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), called ''Ronnie & Joe''. Robinson won the 1990 Benedictine Award as "After-Dinner Speaker of the Year".


Bibliography


Non-fiction

*''BitCon – The Naked Truth About Bitcoin'' (Amazon original Kindle eBook) (2014) *''Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – The Swiss Wash Whiter'' (eBook original) (2013) *''Jeffrey Robinson's Criminal Intent – Following The Money'' (eBook original) (2012) *''The Takedown – A Suburban Mom, A Coal Miner's Son and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel'' (2011) *''There's a Sucker Born Every Minute'' (2010) *''The Sink – Crime, Terror And Dirty Money in the Offshore World'' (2003) *''Prescription Games – Money, Ego and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industry'' (2001) *''The Merger – The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime'' (1998) *''The Manipulators – A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy'' (1997) *''The Hotel – Upstairs, Downstairs in a Secret World'' (1996) *''The Laundrymen'' (1995) *''Bardot – Two Lives'' (1994) *''The End of the American Century'' (1992) *''The Risk Takers – Five Years On'' (1991) *''Rainier & Grace'' (1988) Reissued in 2014 as ''Grace of Monaco'' *''Yamani – The Inside Story'' (1987) *''Minus Millionaires'' (1986) *''The Risk Takers – Portraits of Money, Ego and Power'' (1985) *''Teamwork – Comedy Teams in the Movies'' (1983) *''
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– A Filmography'' (1982) *With
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: ''Leading from the Front – My Story'' (2009) *With
Ronnie Wood Ronald David Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician, best known as an official member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, as well as a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group. Wood began his career in 1964, playing guitar with a ...
: ''Ronnie – The Autobiography" (Life as a
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) (2007) *With
Joseph Petro Joseph Petro (born 1944) is the executive vice president and managing director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services. He is also co-chairman of the United States Department of State's Overseas Security Advisory Council. He also served ...
: ''Standing Next to History – An Agent's Life Inside the
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'' (2005)


Fiction

*''
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'' (2012) *''A True and Perfect Knight'' (1999) *''The Monk's Disciples'' (1997) *''The Margin of the Bulls'' (1995) *''The Ginger Jar'' (1986) *''Pietrov and Other Games'' (1985)


Screenplays, teleplays and radio plays

*''I Je t'Aime You'' (2008) *''The Wake'' (short film) (2008) *''Other Arrangements'' (short film) (2007) *''The Confession'' (2007) *''Notice of Claim'' (2005) *''Bardot'' (2005) *''Sister Banjo'' (2002) *''Tightrope'' (2002) Yorkshire Television *''Rossum's Cyber Café'' BBC Radio 3 (2000) * ''Amos and Andy''BBC Radio 4 (1999) * ''Same Time Tomrorrow''BBC Radio 4 (1999) *''Les Blanchisseurs'' (1998) Arte * ''The Common Factor'' (1997) Metropolitan Police *''The Laundrymen'' (1997) BBC Television


References


External links

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