Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis needs no introduction. For more than twenty-five years she has been the focus of unparalleled fascination and uninterrupted curiosity, one of the most pursued, written about, photographed and famous women of our time. She has been admired, vilified, argued about and scrutinised. She has been the subject of endless news reports, gossip columns,memoirs and case histories. Throughout it all she has remained an enigma, a riddle, a person surrounded by mystery and mystique. Now, C. David Heymann has written an utterly compelling and fascinating biography, as he unravels the riddle of Jacqueline Onassis’s complex life and character.