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Gavin Esler
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Publisher | Harper Collins | ||
ISBN | 9780007280919 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
An absorbing new political thriller from the co-host of Newsnight Robin Burnett has spent years at the heart of power, pulling the strings. With friends in Downing Street, the White House and the CIA he is known as the brightest politician of his generation, tipped to go all the way to the top. But when the media discover that Robin is at the heart of a shocking sex scandal, his glittering career comes to an abrupt end. Robin and those close to him will pay the price of corruption, lies and ruthless ambition, and learn that with a twenty-four hour hungry media, scandal can be hard to avoid. Gavin Esler's novel gives a real sense of the adrenalin of power when you feel the top job is within your grasp. A Scandalous Man presents fascinating, wholly credible scenarios on relationships and secret arrangements with the United States and the Middle East.
Review
This is an absorbing politcal sophisticated thriller. I found reading this book that it seems everyone in politics is in someone else's pocket, perhaps that has always been true but I just never realised that so many people were out to get so many others and do the dirty on them!
We can very well imagine that this all did happen, as the book jacket says it is built around the truth of a real scandal.
Many of us remember the years of Mrs Thatcher and the Falklands War and many other incidents that happened around that time up to the present day topics of 9/11 in the US an 7/7 in the London tubes and bus bombs. Well all this is bought into this book and I found it fascinating reading.
Gavin Esler has put this story together without leaving any of the nasty details out and has shown how a rising political person can be bought down by his own actions, which he has believed, is what he was supposed to be doing.
Unfortunately there is always a down side to the rise in fame, you have to come off the top at some point, and the key character in the book Robin Burnett is the person who suffers for his part, in being at the time a very practical and rising member of the Conservative party under the Iron Lady as she became known.
This is probably the first book of this type I have read and it is indeed powerful, full of intrigue, terror and Lies. But I still say it's brilliant.
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