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A Scandalous Man

A Scandalous Man

by Gavin Esler
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Publication Date: 01/01/2009

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An absorbing novel of power, politics, terror and lies from the co-host of Newsnight
Robin Burnett has spent years at the heart of power, pulling the strings. With friends in Downing Street, the White House and the CIA he is known as the brightest politician of his generation, tipped to go all the way to the top. But when the media discover that Robin is at the heart of a shocking sex scandal, his glittering career comes to an abrupt end. Robin and those close to him will pay the price of corruption, lies and ruthless ambition, and learn that with a twenty-four hour hungry media, scandal can be hard to avoid.

Gavin Esler's novel gives a real sense of the adrenalin of power when you feel the top job is within your grasp. A Scandalous Man presents fascinating, wholly credible scenarios on relationships and secret arrangements with the United States and the Middle East.
ISBN:
9780007280919
9780007280919
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x25mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Gavin Esler

Gavin Esler is an author and award-winning broadcaster with the BBC. He is currently a presenter on the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, and he is also familiar to audiences around the world on BBC World Television where he hosts Dateline London and numerous other programmes, including Hardtalk. Gavin won a Sony Gold Award for his Radio Four Programme Letters from Guantanamo, an investigation of the position of those held without trial in the so-called War on Terror. He has also won a coveted Royal Television Society Award for his reporting in the United States, and has recently completed a radio documentary series for BBC World Service and BBC Radio Four, The Clinton Years.

Gavin has interviewed numerous heads of state and government including President Clinton, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, King Abdullah of Jordan, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, former President Rafsanjani of Iran and Jacques Chirac of France. His other major BBC interviews for Arts programmes include guests as varied as Dolly Parton, Angelina Jolie and Penelope Cruz to Donald Sutherland, Stephen Frears, Seamus Heaney, Julian Barnes, V S Naipaul, Jane Fonda, Daniel Barenboim, Alaa al Aswany and Javier Marias. He is also a frequent contributor and columnist on newspapers and magazines, most notably The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, the Spectator, the New Statesman and The Scotsman.

For eight years Gavin Esler was the BBC’s Chief North America Correspondent based in Washington. Hr coordinated BBC coverage of the Iran-Contra hearings, and was accredited to cover the presidencies of George H W Bush and Bill Clinton as a White House correspondent. He commentated live for BBC television and radio on the inaugurations of Clinton and George W Bush, plus he anchored BBC Television coverage of the Monica Lewinsky / Clinton impeachment proceedings. He has also reported on international affairs from all over the world including the Brazilian rainforest, the Aleutian Islands, Russia, the Middle East and China. He is the author of The United States of Anger, an examination of the discontent within the United States directed towards the political system, plus a series of novels including A Scandalous Man (2008) and Powerplay (2009.)

Powerplay, published in Harper Collins paperback in May 2010, is set at the end of the Obama administration. It tells the story of the decline in the US-British “special relationship” as seen through the eyes of Alex Price, the British ambassador to Washington, at a time of crisis. The British, Scottish and American governments find themselves having a huge row over terrorism. To patch things up the British invite the new American vice president to come on a shooting trip to Scotland – where he disappears.

Gavin Esler is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law by the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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