MICHAEL DOBBS
THE FINAL CUT
This is entirely a work of fiction. Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses, organizations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. All names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.
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Praise for The Final Cut:
‘It’s that man again…in Francis Urquhart he has created a true political icon. Dobbs lays fair claim to being the Quentin Tarantino of pulp fiction’
Sunday Times
‘A triumphant return…The action is unflagging, the characterization razor sharp, the satirical barbs at politics and politicians unfailingly accurate…What a brilliant creation FU is’
Sunday Telegraph
For David, Peter and Linda. The Family Dobbs.
‘That we shall die, we know; ’tis but the time
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.’
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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