Author: Preston, Peter
Paperback
304 pages
Published: August 1999
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140275800
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Prime Minister Rupert Warner has taken Great Britain out of Europe, spurred on by a sentimental death-bed conversation with his father, a veteran of the Falklands. The consequences are dire - until an unexpected offer comes from one of Britain's old allies. Peter Preston's debut novel is a brilliant political satire.Inspired by the patriotism of his dying father, Rupert Warner uses his position to lead England out of the EC, and almost accidentally into the United States. Even more accidentally, he finds himself running for the Vice-Presidency, and who knows where that might lead.