Title: Amsterdam
First published: 1998
Description: Winner of the 1998 Booker PrizeOn a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.In the days that follow Molly's funeral Clive and Vernon will make a pact that will have consequences neither has foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life.
Subjects: Composers, Editors, Fiction, Foreign ministers, Literature, Male friendship, Man Booker Prize Winner, Political corruption, award:man_booker_prize=1998, Fiction in Spanish, Political corruption -- Great Britain -- Fiction, Foreign ministers -- Great Britain -- Fiction, Composers -- England -- London -- Fiction, Editors -- England -- London -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, Great Britain -- Fiction, Fiction, political, Fiction, suspense, Amsterdam (netherlands), fiction, Netherlands, fiction, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Large type books, The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: England, Great Britain, London, London (England)