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Chapter 1: The Other Minister

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his

office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without

leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. He was waiting for a call from

the President of a far distant country, and between wondering when the

wretched man would telephone, and trying to suppress unpleasant memories

of what had been a very long, tiring, and difficult week, there was not much

space in his head for anything else. The more he attempted to focus on the

print on the page before him, the more clearly the Prime Minister could see

the gloating face of one of his political opponents. This particular opponent

had appeared on the news that very day, not only to enumerate all the

terrible things that had happened in the last week (as though anyone needed

reminding) but also to explain why each and every one of them was the

government's fault.

The Prime Minister's pulse quickened at the very thought of these

accusations, for they were neither fair nor true. How on earth was his

government supposed to have stopped that bridge collapsing? It was

outrageous for anybody to suggest that they were not spending enough on

bridges. The bridge was fewer than ten years old, and the best experts were

at a loss to explain why it had snapped cleanly in two, sending a dozen cars

into the watery depths of the river below. And how dare anyone suggest that

it was lack of policemen that had resulted in those two very nasty and well-

publicized murders? Or that the government should have somehow foreseen

the freak hurricane in the West Country that had caused so much damage to

both people and property? And was it his fault that one of his Junior7

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