Summary
Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong.
Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend’s death doesn’t seem right. Then days after Macready’s flat is apparently burgled, Swift discovers that his friend had been researching a string of Russian government figures who had met similarly ‘accidental’ fates.
When the police refuse…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473674516 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473674514 |
| Author: | John Simpson |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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A contemporary, topical murder mystery that marks John Simpson’s emphatic return to fiction
An entertaining, often funny account of the murder of an insignificant MP, the solution to which eventually leads to Moscow. The novel’s pleasure lies with its voluble louche narrator, Jon Swift, a down-on-his-luck television presenter who was friends with the dead politician - The Times
A contemporary, topical murder mystery that marks John Simpson’s emphatic return to fiction - Radio TimesAbout The Author
John Simpson
John Simpson has been the BBC’s World Affairs Editor for more than half his fifty-two-year career. In his time with the BBC, he has reported on major events all over the world, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, a News and Current Affairs award and an Emmy. He lives in Oxford.
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