Parliamentary lobbyist Damian Beaufort
is a professional manipulator - clever, charming, ruthless - but when Labour
wins power his Tory-heavy agency spirals towards bankruptcy. And the rest of
his life looks like going the same way.
Salvation comes not from booze or sex - despite his best
efforts - but a far less likely quarter: the UK's Secret Intelligence
Service. It also comes at a cost.
Beaufort finds himself entangled in a lethal web of
conflicts: an internecine turf war between MI5 and MI6; underhand Westminster
manoeuvrings; Eurocrats bent on reversing Brexit; and, seemingly pulling all
the strings, the sinister head of Russia's FSB.
Soon the lobbyist-turned-spy isn't just fighting to save his
agency, his reputation and his country. He's fighting for his life, and he's
fighting for revenge.
First-time author Lionel Zetter brings dazzling insider
knowledge to bear in this fast-moving contemporary thriller with a totally
unexpected denouement in the Chamber of the House of Commons.
Paperback / softback | 336 pages | Published October 2025
