Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge in 2012, the case was described as a "$2.5-million suit" and Bower said, "How can a convicted fraudster find a jury who will say that his reputation has been damaged by a book that says he's a fraudster?" A passing reference in the book to the British businessman, pornographer, and publisher Richard Desmond led to Desmond unsuccessfully suing Bower for libel in 2009. Desmond argued that the description in the book that he was "ground into the dust" when he had published an apology after Black had threatened to sue for libel had weakened his reputation. Notes References Conrad and
Tom Bower law at the London School of Economics, before working as a barrister for the National Council of Civil Liberties. In 1970, Bower joined the BBC as a researcher on the programme "24 Hours" before becoming a reporter on "Panorama". He was a producer on "Panorama" from 1975 until 1987. He left the BBC in 1995. Bower is married to Veronica Wadley, former editor of the London "Evening Standard", and has four children. Bower's second book was "Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyon" (1984) which documented Klaus Barbie's war crimes during World War II as head of the Gestapo in Lyon,