Fatal Ambition - A Novel By Nick De Bois
In this Podcast when we interview Nick De Bois about his first novel \u201cFatal Ambition.\u201d
\nNick who was the MP for Enfield North has joined a handful of ex MPs who have taken to writing a political thriller. Tom Watson and Chris Mullin had already successful launched their novels before and now Nick has joined them.
\nIt is a gripping novel that combines a global conspiracy, betrayal, corruption, naked ambition and even murder. At times you would be forgiven in thinking this is real and not a product of a vivid imagination.
\nNick who\u2019s been there first hand at the highest levels of government and in the heart of the establishment is very well placed to portray in novel form the machinations of government but not just because he had been close to government. Nick like one of his fellow MPs of some years ago, John Biffen, was always semi detached from government and the strictures of party politics.
\nThis semi detachment has enabled him to weave into his novel some critical questions about the nature of our democracy and political system and this gives the novel a cutting edge. In the framework of a story the novel raises questions about how decisions are made, who makes those decisions and whether the electorate is manipulated by those who do.
\nNick has already written a memoir called \u201cConfessions of a Recovering MP\u201d which also sheds some light on the \u201cnoises off\u201d stage in politics and this novel adds to that never ending story of political intrigue.