The second book in the trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards
After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King,
The role of the monarchy in modern Britain comes under scrutiny as Prime Minister Francis Urquhart threatens to expose Royal secrets when his plans are blocked by the idealistic new King. Their differences of opinion quickly degenerate into open hostility. The battlefield ranges from architecture to the underprivileged; the battle is fought with rigged opinion polls, manipulated...
The second book in the trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards
After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, newly elect...
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account — told from inside the White House — of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasised into what White House counsel John Dean called ‘a full-blown cancer’. King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate...
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account — told from inside the White House — of the crucial days, hours, and moments...