Winning Against the Odds

Winning Against the Odds tells the fascinating, eccentric story of one of England's most fascinating and eccentric men.Stuart Wheeler went to Eton and Oxford. He was an officer in the Welsh Guards, a barrister, an investment banker and a major donor to the Conservative Party. You might think that he has led a life of impeccably conformist upper-class respectability. You'd be wrong.For Wheeler is also an illegitimate child adopted at the age of two, a maverick businessman who made his fortune on