'We haven't had a better novel about Parliament since Anthony Trollope'

--Scotsman

'Probably the greatest storyteller of our age'

--Mail on Sunday

'Jeffrey Archer has.a gift for plot that can only be described as genius"

--Daily Telegraph

In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of Prime Minister ...