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REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION
Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now with brand new material.
He schemed his way to power in House of Cards and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King’. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. Yet it seems the public is tiring of him at last, and the movement to force him from power is growing. But Urquhart is not yet ready to be driven from office. If the public demand new blood, that is precisely what he will give them…
Francis Urquhart goes out in a blaze of glory in this final volume in the irresistible story of the most memorable politician of the decade.
媒体推荐‘A triumphant return… The best book of the three. The action is unflagging, the characterization razor-sharp, the satirical barbs at politics and politicians unfailingly accurate. Urquhart’s last days in Downing Street are as compelling as Mrs Thatcher’s. What a brilliant creation F.U. is.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Razor-sharp and merciless… One thing is certain: F.U. will be remembered for much longer than the name of many a real Prime Minister.’
Daily Mail
‘Magnificent… this book has it all.’
Sunday Express
Michael Dobbs has carved out a unique niche as the country’s leading political thriller writer, with a reputation for always being at the right hand of political controversy. In 1979 he was at Mrs Thatcher’s side as she took her first step into Downing Street as Prime Minister, and in 1994 John Major appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. One newspaper described him as ‘Westminster’s baby-faced hitman’.
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平装外文书所以用的再生纸，轻，黄。
可以很方便的放到上班的公文包里，这点最好了。
如果我读完可能中文也要出了吧，现在都出2了。
The newly crowned King of the United Kingdom (Michael Kitchen) is displeased with the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) and becomes involved in politics in a way that Urquhart finds unacceptable for a constitutional monarch. At their first meeting, the King expresses concern about Urquhart's social policies, which he argues have led to greater problems for urban areas. Tensions escalate when Urquhart moves his leftist Environment Secretary to a job in Strasbourg after rejecting his proposals to regenerate inner cities. The King's Assistant Press Se"rest":"cretary, Chloe Carmichael, leaks the outcome of the meeting to the press, which rankles Urquhart.<br /><br />Corder, Urquhart's sinister bodyguard and security advisor, puts the King and other enemies under surveillance. Fearing the King will weaken the Prime Minister's position, Urquhart obtains "Regal Insurance" from Princess Charlotte, the former wife of a royal family member. Urquhart's underling, Party Chair Tim Stamper, persuades her to divulge lurid details about the Monarchy to Sir Bruce Bullerby, the editor of the Daily Clarion tabloid, on condition the information is published after her death. Urquhart also begins regularly meeting with the King's ex-wife, repeatedly assuring her that whatever his differences are with the King, that he has no intention of disturbing the Monarchy.<br /><br />The King and his staff produce a public service announcement implicitly denouncing how Urquhart's policies have affected Britain and covertly rally Opposition leaders to join forces against the Prime Minister. Irked by this intransigence, Urquhart calls an early election. His wife, Elizabeth, introduces him to a pollster named Sarah Harding and persuades him to choose her as a political advisor. Urquhart is impressed with Harding's intelligence and starts to favour her over Stamper, who becomes increasingly bitter over Urquhart's reluctance to promote him to a senior position. Urquhart eventually begins an affair with Harding, which puts a strain on her marriage. Through all this, Urquhart continues to be haunted by his murder of Mattie Storin; and unbeknownst to him, someone possesses Mattie's tape recording of her own death.<br /><br />After a brief abduction by some homeless thugs, Harding is told to "Ask 'im about Mattie Storin". Despite her feelings for Urquhart, Harding begins to question his version of events about the tragedy. She meets John Krajewski, a former colleague of Mattie's who is now a paranoid freelance journalist. Corder and his staff execute Krajewski and blame it on Irish republican terrorists. Meanwhile, Urquhart threatens the King with Charlotte's memoirs, saying that he will be forced to publish them if the King continues to publicly oppose him. The King, however, refuses to be blackmailed. Urquhart engages in secret meetings with the King's ex-wife, who urges him not to back down. He also blackmails Bullerby into publishing Charlotte's memoirs in the Daily Clarion, threatening to release images of his sexual relationship with the princess.<br /><br />While the royal scandal succeeds in hurting the King's popularity, the polls reverse when Conservative MP John Staines is arrested for child molestation. A furious Urquhart blames Stamper for the fallout, having put Staines in the public arena before his arrest. Mycroft, the King's closeted advisor, begins fearing his sexual orientation may damage the king's standing, having seen Staines in a gay bar with an underage boy before Staines' arrest. Mycroft eventually decides to come out to the King's press corps, and at the same time announcing his resignation.<br /><br />The deadly explosion of a tower block, as a result of a tenant's tapping into the gas main, puts the King's arguments about social problems back into the public domain. The King organizes a bus tour visiting disadvantaged council estates in Britain to show his concern, arranging for Opposition leaders to follow him. He refuses to include a security detail. Urquhart arranges for Corder to have the King abducted by thugs during his tour of an estate in Manchester. The Parachute Regiment, secretly shadowing the King's tour on Urquhart's orders, rescues him from possible harm. The King is seen as foolish for his negligence towards security, and Urquhart seems like a hero for having protected him.<br /><br />Urquhart announces his intention of having unemployed youth from the estates conscripted into the military, re-enacting a form of peacetime national service. The Conservatives subsequently win the general election with a 22-seat overall majority. With his policies vindicated by the electorate, despite the King's public opposition, Urquhart demands the king's abdication. Meanwhile, Corder realises that Stamper has passed information on Mattie's murder to Harding as insurance. With urging from Elizabeth, Urquhart orders Corder to assassinate them. Harding's car explodes when she is en route to meet Chloe, while Stamper's car explodes outside New Scotland Yard. The media interpret the car bombings as Provisional IRA attacks."
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