Finally brought to book, mastermind literary thief who worked in a junior job at a British publisher | News

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Everyone in publishing had a theory about “the spine collector”. When a shadowy genius started impersonating senior industry figures in London and New York to obtain manuscripts before publication, there was speculation that their motivation could be sabotage, blackmail, espionage or revenge.

One rumour was that it was a Hollywood scout deploying “black ops” to try to acquire novels by writers such as Margaret Atwood, Paula Hawkins and Ian McEwan before their rivals in the hope of turning them into films. Another that it was a struggling literary scout wanting to unsettle the competition.

In the end, the mastermind behind this five-year digital robbery spree turned out to be a balding, bespectacled man who worked in a junior role at a London publishing house. On

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