Chris Mullin The Friends of Harry Perkins Paperback Book

CONTAINS TWO NEVERBEFOREPUBLISHED SHORT STORIES The Lord Cardinal and The Man Who Shot the President Harry Perkins was buried on the day that America declared war on China. The definitive postBrexit novel, and longawaited sequel to the bestselling A Very British Coup. Brexit Britain was a gloomy place. True, the Armageddon that some had prophesied had not occurred, but neither had economic miracle promised by the Brexiteers. Instead there had been a long, slow decline into insularity and irrelevance. The value of the pound had fallen steadily against the Euro, the dollar and the Yuan. The much vaunted increase in trade with the Commonwealth had not materialised. The Americans, too, were proving particularly obstreperous. Even now after a nearly decade of negotiations no significant agreements had been reached. At the UN there was talk of relieving the UK of its seat on the Security Council. In postBrexit Britain, the countrys international standing is the lowest its ever been, and social tensions have reached boiling point. Fred Thompson former aide to the leftwing prime minister, Harry Perkins is determined to put things right. As he climbs the political ranks, though, Thompson learns that principles must be compromised and dangerous bargains struck if he is to attain the only office high enough to truly make a difference. At once a gripping political thriller and a chilling prognostication of where we may be headed, this taut, insightful and engrossing novel is... | Chris Mullin The Friends of Harry Perkins Paperback Book