‘I am the other Mrs Jordan’
On a damp, grey April morning in 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that was to blow her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line calmly told her that she and Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married for fourteen years and had five children together.
THE OTHER MRS JORDAN is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated and deceived an intelligent, independent woman, conning her out of around £200,000 and leaving her near bankrupt to bring up the children he claimed he was physically incapable of fathering.
It's a story that we all think could never happen to us, but before dismissing her as an easily duped, desperate woman, read how he baited and maintained the traps he used to manipulate her from the very start.
Learn how this shameless conman has been doing the same thing to various other women and how he concocted the most intricate of cover stories, claiming to be a CIA agent to cover his frequent unexplained absences. In the words of both the prey and the predator, this book exposes a life shattering con by an expert charmer who has been practising deceit, fraud and abuse for at least 26 years.
This is one woman's story that touches the lives of every person who has ever been taken in by a skilled liar, manipulated by deceit, or abused in trust. Although a victim of a crime, Mary does not see herself as a victim and uses the experience to move forward positively towards a brighter future.
"William Allen Jordan, you are 41 years old, a con man, a convicted paedophile, and a bigamist. You are an inveterate exploiter of vulnerable women, not just financially but also emotionally"
Judge Thomas Corrie
"The book is nothing short of brilliant. I was completely gripped and it was truly one of those occasions when I was thrilled to be doing my job and able to speak to the author. I was unable to Put. It. Down. She’s a v talented writer and it is scary how successful Will Jordan was at what he did to have been able to lure in someone like her. Really makes the point about how dangerous these people are."
Jane Warren, Senior Features Writer, Daily Express
"Heard an interview with the said MRS JORDAN on the radio late one night while driving home from work. I was fascinated by the in's and out of how a person/partner could provide so much deception and deceit and live with all the lies. The author explained how plausible the lies were and more worryingly how a person could consistently without consciousness for others, (those he supposedly loved) weave a web of a fabricated lifestyle and persona. The thing that caught me was that I heard it mentioned that 4 out of 10 people are sociopaths and it made me think who in the board room is undiagnosed, how many of my friends and family have sociopathic tendencies and more importantly Am I a Sociopath???? I was captivated by the authors interview and although this is about bigamy and betrayal and I guess more likely to be picked up by female (possibly scorned) readers, as a male reader I can't wait to try and understand what makes a sociopath tick and look for the signs in those I choose to trust. Hope the book is written as well as the interview was conducted."
Monkey “Magic” of York, listed on Amazon.co.uk
Herein lies a tale scarier than fiction which gives the misery memoir concept a horrible new twist
The Bookseller
“THE DEVIL, I safely can aver, Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting . . . He is what we are; for sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.” I wonder, though, if Percy Bysshe Shelley had ever encountered an incarnation of evil quite so intriguing and damnable as Will Jordan.
The Church Times - http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=40282