Book description
‘I think there must be some mistake.’
James Lester is a rising star in the political world and all signs
point to his becoming the next Prime Minister, but the appearance of a
mystery girl, claiming to have a history with the MP, threatens a
scandal capable of wrecking his campaign.
Lester denies the association, but each new revelation by the girl is
more damning and dramatic than the last. As the scandal grows, a small
number of journalists take up his cause and resolve to properly
investigate the case. Who is Shirley Holt? And how does she know so many
details about an event that Lester claims never to have taken place?
Told through media reports and diary entries, Andrew Garve delivers
another ingenious thriller.
‘Garve at his most irresistibly cunning’ New York Times
‘In all the excellently varied books Garve has given us he surely
cannot have found a better plot’ The Times
Andrew Garve is the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was
born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester
and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in
Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist
for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London
News Chronicle
as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned
to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the
BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure
novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized,
televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages.
He is noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds - which have included
Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the
Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry - and for
never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the
Crime Writers’ Association.
