Beneath the Streets - Tommy Wildeblood
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When Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded? It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don't seem to care, 20-year-old Tommy Wildeblood-himself a former 'Dilly boy' prostitute-finds himself investigating. Dodging murderous Soho hoodlums and the agents of a more sinister power, Tommy uncovers another, even more shocking crime: the Liberal leader and likely next Home Secretary, Jeremy Thorpe, has had his former male lover executed on Exmoor and got clean away with it. Now the trail of guilt seems to lead higher still, and a ruthless Establishment will stop at nothing to cover its tracks. In a gripping thriller whose cast of real-life characters includes Prime Minister Harold Wilson, his senior adviser Lady Falkender, gay Labour peer Tom Driberg and the investigative journalist Paul Foot, Adam Macqueen plays "what if" with Seventies UK political history-with a sting in the tail that reminds us that the truth can be just as chilling as fiction.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781785631733 |
Publisher: | Eye Books |
Imprint: | Lightning Books |
Pub date: | 13 Apr 2020 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 288 |
Weight: | 304g |
Height: | 129mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 27mm |