An Improbable Journey

The year was 1971. Thirty-year-old Charles Lubar, a Washington, DC-born Harvard Law School graduate with a two-and-a-half-year deep dive in the Chief Counsel's Office of the Internal Revenue Service recently behind him, was floundering in Nairobi, Kenya where he had come to seek the kind of high-stakes adventures one could never find at a major law firm in the US. But with his entrepreneurial hopes quashed in Nairobi by an environment that hardly wrapped its arms around outsiders... Lubar decided to pick up his stakes. With a sense of timing that would come to his aid throughout his life, the young lawyer opted to make his next home in the UK. Little did he know that he would soon be swimming hard and fast in 1970s London during a cultural surge of film, television, music, and the stage. "Hired off the street" by two American lawyers in London... Lubar could never have predicted that his work would soon put him front and center at some of the biggest moments with some of the biggest names in showbiz... Lubar's rare knowledge of the tax codes spanning Europe and the US made him an indispensable figure to creatives trying to make their financial lives work on both sides of the Atlantic... Many turned to Lubar in real need of his assistance at the very prime (and sometimes, nadir) of their careers... An Improbable Journey shows a risk-taker with his finger living right on the cultural pulse of a moment.