Les Hinton is the author of two books with Whitefox. His debut thriller, Dying Days, draws from decades as one of Rupert Murdoch’s most trusted lieutenants. As former boss of Murdoch’s UK newspaper stable and CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Hinton witnessed the newspaper industry’s transformation from the inside – and he now channels that experience into a dark thriller set against the industry’s decline. His insider knowledge lends authentic detail as Dying Days plunges readers into a fictional world of power, betrayal and survival.   

The Bootle Boy: My Untidy Life is his brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing.  From the war-wrecked backstreets of the Bootle docklands to the heights of one of the world’s mightiest media empires, it tells Hinton’s remarkable journey during which he worked with Rupert Murdoch for five decades and witnessed the transformation of our media landscape. He writes vividly about the demonic drive of Murdoch himself and the great and notorious characters he encountered along the way – from Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, to Princess Diana, Johnny Rotten and Mick Jagger – and the time when his next-door neighbour was OJ Simpson.