An ambitious Conservative Junior Minister, Edward Dunsford, seems to be doing all the right things in his bid to become Foreign Secretary. Until, that is, a moment's sentimental weakness precipitates his career into chaos, his party into crisis and his own marriage onto the rocks. 'So skilfully do Hurd and Lamport expose Whitehall's nerve-ends that their dissection reveals more of the system's internal workings than all the outpourings of the political researchers thick on the Westminster beat' - Sunday Times
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From Publishers Weekly
More than passing familiarity with British politics is prerequisite in this novel of a politician's tumble from power. Hurd (who is British Home Secretary) and Lamport (a British diplomat in Rome) chronicle the events that conspire to throw Edward Dunsford's carefully ordered career into chaos. An ambitious young Tory with a bright future, Dunsford has made all the right moves, including his marriage to a woman of means who is now tiring of him. But Dunsford makes a dangerous career move when he becomes embroiled in the oil politics of a small African nation and creates a controversy at home that splinters his own party. Although modestly interesting in its portrayal of the use of power, the novel has neither the brilliance of characterization nor of language necessary to lift it above the ordinary.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This transatlantic version of our Washington novel follows a young MP, Edward Dunsford, who is also a junior minister in the Foreign Office. Dunsford goes to a developing nation on a state visit and finds appalling human misery. On his return to London, his government rejects his appeal for major humanitarian aid. The press creates an uproar and he is forced out of Parliament. The wily Prime Minister dissolves Parliament, allowing the government to reassess its aid policy without losing face before the new elections. Dunsford fails to re-win his seat, and loses a good deal more besides; but he equates his losses with a new freedom. The authors, high civil servants, give compelling accounts of the system's ironies, eccentricities, and outright insults. Romance takes center stage often; characters are fairly well fleshed out. Readers will enjoy. Barbara Conaty, Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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