Gabriel Sherman is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He has been covering the Murdochs since 2008. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Loudest Voice in the Room about the late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. He is the screenwriter of the twice Oscar-nominated film The Apprentice and has covered national politics for New York magazine and Vanity Fair. He lives in London with his wife, son, and daughter plus their dog and cat.

"A real-life Succession drama, in all its inglorious tawdriness. . . . It's a story with as much moral relevance as King Lear. . . . Almost certainly guaranteed not to win Rupert Murdoch any new admirers."-- "Kirkus Reviews"

"Sherman delves in this juicy melodrama into the caustic, decades-long family feud over the inheritance of Rupert Murdoch's media empire. . . . The saga reads like a real-life Succession, a comparison even the family can see, as evidenced by their paranoia about possible leaks to the show's writers. Readers will be riveted by this merciless battle for dynastic dominance."-- "Publishers Weekly"

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Pub date: 2026-02-03

Length: 256 pages