A License to Steal
by Omega Publishing Group

	A License to Steal
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Book Description

Walter T. Shaw's Autobiography - As early as the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speaker phones, conference calls and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw was leading us into a high-tech future as part of the intellectual elite, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations. His son, Walter T. Shaw, was enraged by the ill treatment of his father and embraced a personal mission to even the score. Shaw Jr. would become one of the most prolific jewel thieves in U.S. history. Shaw Sr. spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted today, but it was all for nothing. <P>Tragically, only the Mafia rewarded him. Just to make ends meet for his family, he was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob.

Reader Reviews

I have read several reviews of A LICENSE TO STEAL from the life story of Walter Shaw and his late father. As the writer of the screenplay of this man's life, I felt it was important to offer some thoughts. Every review I have read, thus far, has been positive and each reader to whom I have spoken has been intrigued - and for good reason. I did the original research on this family and after years of research, I can attest to the veracity and substance of the story. And I can attest to the extraordinary history on which this story is based. It is a history of corporate betrayal, shattered dreams, crime sprees, the Mafia, remarkable crimes, family tragedy and heartwrenching loss. Readers will note that Mr. Shaw is not "glamorizing" his life and so the book becomes a testament to the truth of the real tragedy - that of a family unwound and fractured by choices made by father and by son. I interviewed many parties in the writing of the screenplay and what becomes apparent is that Mr. Shaw is sad for his loss and feels the pain, mostly caused by impulsive decisions he made as a young man. Clearly, these decisions would impact many people over an entire lifetime. Mr. Shaw makes no claim to be a hero - far from it. And so while this is a book, it is also a testimony, a confession, a diary and a goodbye essay to his father and to lives unfulfilled. A LICENSE TO STEAL is an extraordinary American tragedy and a amazing read. - GM