The Crime Tsar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: July 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780747565208
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
Description: "Police Chief Tom Shackleton has his sights set on being Commissioner of the Met, and no one is more ambitious for his future than his wife Jenni. They are the perfect couple. She with her gleaming blonde hair, svelte body and immaculate Armani suits - he handsome and charmingly diffident. With access to the cream of New Labour through her job as a tabloid feature writer, she can influence the right man to further Tom's career - or so she thinks. Tom and Jenni Shackleton have come a long way but not far enough from the small northern backwater where they grew up, so when Jenni gets her chance to seduce the man tipped to be the next Home Secretary, she raises the stakes and will stop at nothing to get what she wants." "But there is one obstacle still to conquer: Tom's natural rival, Geoffrey Carter, a man with just too much Oxford polish and connection with the government to allow Jenni to sleep well at night. So despite advice from a disturbing source, Jenni soon discovers there is a drug for everything ..."--BOOK JACKET.