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
2009: Lost Memories such as "Flower Island", "Il Mare", and "Bungee Jumping of Their Own". Jonathan Clements in the "Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" wrote: The New York Times welcomed the film, saying that while the film is too long, the plot "leaps unexpectedly from action thriller to science-fiction drama without losing sight of the humanity beneath the nationalism." Nguyen, Duy Lap. "Alternate Histories of Korean National Sovereignty in 2009: Lost Memories." Science Fiction Studies Vol. 44, No. 3 (November 2017), pp. 546–562. 2009: Lost Memories 2009: Lost Memories (; "2009 Loseutumemorijeu") is a 2002 South Korean science fiction action film directed by Lee