Mike Engleby is a man without conscience or remorse who claws his way through Thatcher's England and the New Labour era with brutal candor and dark humour. Sebastian Faulks delivers a sharp, contemporary novel that cuts through pretension and polite society, following Engleby's ascent amid encounters with famous faces and forgotten lives. Raw and unsparing, this is a portrait of ambition, corruption, and the cost of truth told without mercy.
