The Predecessor
Browne, M. R.
Old soldiers never die, Never die, never die, Old soldiers never die, They simply fade away''This is the story of a political haunting.Holton is a marginal Westcountry constituency, splicing together feral countryside, a pompous market town and depressing suburbs. This is the tale of two of its Members of Parliament. Robert Wilkes is a backbench MP of the modern age, lost in the gap between ambition and capability and increasingly bitter about...