An up and coming Member of Parliament takes on a mistress. From this simple act a whole host of events ensue that result in death and the destruction of many lives.
The MP in a sex game sets his mistress up to be kidnapped. He pays a couple of men to do this but a terrible car accident results in the death of the woman and one of the men. The other man suffers a loss of memory.
The MP, due to a misinterpretation of the facts of the accident and good fortune appears to get away with it. As ever with Barbara Vine, you know this will not be as it seems. We get inside the heads of the characters to understand the psyche of who we are dealing with.
The web of deception soon unravels and it is a great tale that is set in the early 1990's and the sleaze of the then Conservative Government in the UK.
Great stuff and an 8/10 for me.
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