First Among EqualsIn the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal the office of Prime Minister . . .

For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology

and amateur sleuth from Slough spices up the lives of Berkshire's elite with both her mouth-watering dishes and her sharp detective skills

lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere

Stryker is spared by an unlikely saviour

wander the city and take tribute

But the battered Asian girl she turns out to be Vietnamese he finds in the doorway of his basement flat drags him straight back to the old world

In her hand

But Cass has a secret: one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose

In this book

To Ren's astonishment

Fuses folklore and political parable

Only one man