Liliane rode out her rocky marriage with grace and strength, according to Leon Harris in his 1979 book, "Merchant Princes".
Mr. Bout's air cargo business helped inspire the 2005 film "Lord of War" and a book, "Merchant of Death," by two American journalists.
And Mr. Marcus was evidently displeased when Mr. Harris described him in a 1979 book, "Merchant Princes," as "a man difficult to like and impossible not to admire".
He was dining with a friend, Bill Holman, in a Chinese restaurant in Austin and discussing one of their favorite subjects - the old, rare documents of Texas history that Holman, a former librarian and printer, studies, and that Taylor, a printer and book merchant, dabbles in selling.
They spent most weekends there when they weren't shooting or scouting; Jhabvala stretched out on a bed with a book, Merchant cooking extravagantly in the tiny kitchen, Richard Robbins, who composed scores for most of the company's films and died in 2012, riffing on the grand piano.
With Thursday's arrest Mr. Bout, already the principal character of one book, "Merchant of Death," by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun, may well find himself the subject of another, said Michael A. Braun, the chief of operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, at a news conference in New York.
Her book "Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and the Future of News" will be published in January.
Some of the messages tested by Ice included: "Who told you the Earth was warming... Chicken Little", according to Naomi Oreskes in the book Merchants of Doubt.
It would also lead to the growth of US-style anti-science "thinktanks", as described in Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway's recent book Merchants of Doubt.
The same quote appears at the beginning of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How A Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by science historians Erik Conway and Professor Naomi Oreskes.
Oreskes, co-author, with Erik Conway, of the 2010 book "Merchants of Doubt," said that many climate scientists today are loath to speak out on the issue, instead saying that their role ends with gathering and presenting the facts.
