The Baring Fault - Softcover

Stonehouse, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714541060 ISBN 13: 9780714541068

Publisher: Riverrun Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Charles Baring, member of an aristocratic family, attends Eton, and becomes Prime Minister, all the while spying for the Soviet Union

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Born at the turn of the century, Charles Baring is a son of the English Establishment, endowed with money, intelligence and political acuity. From Eton, he goes to the trenches in France in World War I and then is shipped with the British Expeditionary Forces to Russia in 1918. In the fighting at Archangel, Baring decides that the British role in suppressing the Bolshevik Revolution is not only misguided but corrupt. He deserts to become a comrade, but canny commissars persuade him to rejoin his regiment as a Kremlin agent. Mustered out, Baring enters British politics, always in collusion with Moscow; eventually he becomes Prime Minister. Stonehouse (My Trial, once a Labor Party cabinet member, later convicted for fraud after a sensational faked suicide attempt, writes knowledgeably and with accurate historical detail about the deterioration of British life and politics in the last 90 years. Skillfully constructed, the novel mixes fact and invention adroitly.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Riverrun Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0714541060
• ISBN 13: 9780714541068
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1