First Among Equals

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In this stoi7 of titanic rivalry among three men, the field of battle is Britain's Parliament, where competition is waged with an exquisite politeness that only masks its ferocity. And the ultimate prize is the highest office in the land. From the time the men enter Parliament, it is a three-way race to the day—three decades later— when one will become Prime Minister.
Raymond Gould is the scholarship student born above a butcher shop, fired by ambition from the time he is twelve, sure of his path. His only mistake: the luckless shotgun marriage that has tied him down to a small-town wife.
Charles Hampton is Raymond's opposite. His beautiful thoroughbred wife, his patrician background and his family bank seem to bely the hidden troubles in his polished life.
Simon Kerslake is that rarity among politicians—a husband and father whose wife is his
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equal, with a career of her own. In fact, he's... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In this stoi7 of titanic rivalry among three men, the field of battle is Britain's Parliament, where competition is waged with an exquisite politeness that only masks its ferocity. And the ultimate prize is the highest office in the land. From the time the men enter Parliament, it is a three-way race to the day—three decades later— when one will become Prime Minister.
Raymond Gould is the scholarship student born above a butcher shop, fired by ambition from the time he is twelve, sure of his path. His only mistake: the luckless shotgun marriage that has tied him down to a small-town wife.
Charles Hampton is Raymond's opposite. His beautiful thoroughbred wife, his patrician background and his family bank seem to bely the hidden troubles in his polished life.
Simon Kerslake is that rarity among politicians—a husband and father whose wife is his
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equal, with a career of her own. In fact, he's perfect—until the banks start looking into his finances-
Through all the permutations of mutual affection and enmity, honor and deceit, these three men are joined by the equally ambitious, very different women in their lives. As all these lives cross (and double-cross) in the race for power, the reader comes to care about all three men. But only one can win.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bom in 1940 and educated at Wellington School and Brase-nose College, Oxford, Jeffrey Archer became the youngest member of Britain's House of Commons in 1969. He served there through 1974, when he went on to a career as the author of such best-selling novels as Kane & Abel and The Prodigal Daughter.
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Jacket photograph by Keith Bernstein
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