Simon Walters

'Second Term' is the ultimate political novel beach read. It's an entertaining romp of scandal and machinations, featuring dodgy dealings, sordid secrets, media manipulation, compromised principles, betrayals, ballot rigging, elicit affairs, suspicious deaths and the deliciously Machiavellian spin doctor, Charlie Redpath. It is also very much a novel of the turn of the century British political scene and a pre-9/11 world, with substantial chunks of the plot revolving round Irish republican terrorism and a referendum on whether to join the Euro.… (plus d'informations)