Michael Crick has been following British politics as a TV and radio broadcaster for almost 40 years. He was political editor of Newsnight from 2007 to 2011; and political correspondent of Channel 4 News from 2011 to 2019. He has won four Royal Television Society awards, including Specialist Journalist of the Year in 2014 and 2018. He is the author of eight previous books, including Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction and The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson.
'The assiduous Michael Crick ... Crick obviously spent a lot of time diligently trying to crack the mystery of [Howard's family] ... Crick has certainly searched and searched leaving no minutiae unexplored' Andy McSmith, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Michael Crick has a fearsome reputation as an investigative biographer who will turn up awkward revelations about anyone ... Highly readable, moves with pace, and is well researched' Norman Lamont, EVENING STANDARD 'As Lord Archer and Alex Ferguson have discoveered, having Mr Crick on your case in an uncomfortable experience ... revealing' LONDON DIPLOMAT 'This is a shrewd, diligent, wonderfully readable search. It displays Michael Crick at his best, not just as a voracious digger for facts, but also as an analyst with a subtle political brain ... Read now, while stocks and relevance last' Peter Preston, OBSERVER 'Well-written and researched ... Occasionally, a softer Howard peeks out; politicians, like most people, are a more complicated mix of emotions and beliefs than the caricature the media creates (and the politician often plays up to). This nuance is what makes an in-depth biography such as Crick's worth reading ... fascinating' Peter Hyman, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Like his comrade in arms, Tome Bower, [Crick] is counsel for the prosecution, a biographical rottweiler. Toss him a bone and he chews it to the marrow ... Crick is an investigative journalist, an excellent one' Simon Jenkins, SUNDAY TIMES 'By trawling through Home Office papers at the National Archives in Kew, Crick discovered that Howard's father, Bernard Hecht, was an economic migrant to this country, while his grandfather Morris Wurzberger was an illegal immigrant ... Crick [is] one of the most assiduous and effective investigative journalists around ... clearly meticulously researched. It is methodical and detailed' Rachel Sylvester, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Michael Crick is an incredible livewire' Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'This major new biography by Michael Crick should be a matter of some importance. Crick has produced scrupulously researched and revelatory biographies of figures as varied as Arthur Scargill, Jeffrey Archer and Sir Alex Ferguson' Harry Reid, THE HERALD [GLASGOW] 'Michael Crick is an impressive investigator of the crimes and follies of the great ... it is a good reminder of the shabby and often decadent Major years. Howard's dark days at the Home Office are also well described in grisly detail' Robert Taylor, TRIBUNE 'A work of careful journalism ... thorough and well-researched, in some respects exceptionally so ... The author tells this story [about the sacking of Derek Lewis] extremely well' Simon Heffer, SPECTATOR 'Michael Crick's new biography ... tells a moving family story' Timothy Garton Ash, GUARDIAN 'This is in many respects a model biography. The writing is fluent and the analysis is generally shrewd and sure-footed' Andrew Lynch, SUNDAY BUSINESS POST (Dublin) 'Brilliant insight into an intriguing MP' Daily Express
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