Enough Is Enough: or The Emergency Government

Westminster, 1968-1976: a world where politicians, spies and journalists cross paths, swords -- and each other Harold Wilson. British Prime Minister. Adulterer. Soviet agent...The year is 1968. Britain has just witnessed its first successful human heart transplant, is gearing up for decimalisation and fighting the ongoing war against communism; lies are common currency and the truth worth less than Wilson's recently devalued pound. For those in power -- which is not necessarily those in politics -- it's a time of back-stabbing and blackmail, bets, bluffs, double-bluffs, bugs and buggers. When Bernard Storey (Mirror reporter, husband, something of a gambling man) is drawn into this web of treachery and intrigue, he finds it hard to know what to believe. Can it be true, as gossips whisper, that Wilson is the father of his secretary's unborn child, or is he, as MI5 hint, actually a Russian plant? Is there a plot afoot to overthrow the government and, if so, who's really behind it? And last but not least, where exactly does Storey fit into the equation? Enough is Enough is a sparkling, satirical account of the truth -- and the lies -- behind the rumours. 'Lawson's eye for political humbug is unpitying and his mastery of dialogue, both comic and serious, suggests a formidable writer' Sunday Telegraph