Updated paperback edition of Jimmy Burns’s international best-selling biography of the greatest player in the history of football, Maradona: The Hand of God is being published by Bloomsbury in the run-up to this summer’s World Cup in South Africa where the controversial Diego returns as Argentina’s national coach.
Have you read this book?
This is the book the late Graham Greene managed to read in manuscript form on his way to Moscow to visit his old friend Kim Philby. Greene – always generous with young aspiring authors – subsequently wrote to me saying: “You can quote me as saying this is a required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine situation before and after the Falklands War.’