In the final installment of the post-World War II trilogy that began with the best-selling Paradise Postponed, the merciless MP Leslie Titmuss has been deposed and replaced by Terry Flitton, a centrist-style politician familiar to both sides of the Atlantic. 40,000 first printing. Tour.
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.