The first ever Biography of Robert Newton.
Farmer, tax exile, he ran.
Newton was more than an actor; yet he is the quintessential pirate, Disney\'s \'Long John Silver\', is the brutal Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist.
He starred in dozens of films, dozens of plays.
He survived the bloodiest naval arena in the second world war; married four times he failed as a husband and a father.
Cowboy, beach-bum; loaded and flat broke.
From an idyll Cornish childhood to a desperate death amidst the Hollywood elite.
The first ever Biography of Robert Newton