The Buddha of Brewer Street

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Backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in the search for the new Dalai Lama in this highly original and compelling thriller from the author of GOODFELLOWE MP and HOUSE OF CARDS -- now reissued in new cover style. A new Dalai Lama is born. The infant god-king of Tibet. And around the child explodes an international conspiracy that will carve a trail of death from the slopes of Mount Everest right to the heart of London's Chinatown. It is an unlikely battleground for a backbench MP -- but then Tom Goodfellowe is the unlikeliest of heroes. His career is going nowhere and his main concerns are his overdraft and his unrequited love life -- until a mysterious Tibetan monk walks into his chaotic world and draws him into a murderous race against time. On the outcome of this race will hang the fate of millions of people and one of the world's great religions. The odds are hopeless but he is a born fighter. And the best of Tom Goodfellowe is yet to come.

Michael Dobbs has carved out a unique niche as the country's leading political thriller writer, with a reputation for always being at the right hand of political controversy. In 1979 he was at Mrs Thatcher's side as she took her first step into Downing Street as Prime Minister, and in 1994 John Major appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. One newspaper described him as 'Westminster's baby-faced hitman'.

'A rattling good yarn to keep you warm on long winter nights! It deserves to be relished! Here is good old-fashioned entertainment in the great British tradition of Rider Haggard, done with wit, skill, pace and panache.' Sunday Express 'Parliamentary intrigue, political scandal and government treachery! Dobbs demonstrates why he is the master.' Times Literary Supplement 'Slick, fast-moving and distinctive.' Mail on Sunday