The colourful tale of entrepreneur Green

摘要

We can only fantasise about how Philip Green will have reacted to news that one of several threatened biographies charting the extraordinary rise of the King of the Shops has actually made it into print. Angry phone calls? Of course. Expletives? Plenty. Litigation? Well... difficult to say. Green is not a man to take any questioning of his abilities or his record, or even his style, on the chin. His name is one of those that flashes bright red when it crosses a newspaper lawyer's screen. No editor ever takes his call without a sharp intake of breath. But with Top Man, penned with admirable speed by the BBC's Stewart Lansley and Andy Forrester, Green will have no particular reason to reach for his lawyers.