Michael Dobbs served as Chief of Staff to British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party in the mid-1990s. His many books include House of Cards, the first in what would become a trilogy of political thrillers based on the character Francis Urquhart.His latest novel is The Reluctant Hero.
Dobbs named a brief list of great fictional Prime Ministers for the Times (London).
One PM on the list:Adam Lang in The Ghost by Robert Harris (2007)Read about another Prime Minister on Dobbs' list.
Like Perkins, Lang is also a Labour PM but there the similarities peter out. Idealism for Lang is only speech-deep; he is a barely disguised Blair. The Ghost is a stomach-scouring denunciation of new Labour by one of its most enthusiastic early supporters.
Read about Michael Dobbs and his books.
The Page 69 Test: The Lords’ Day.
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