What if you saved a man’s life? What if that man went on to play a leading role in the bloodiest revolution of modern times? In Figurehead Patrick Allington takes readers deep into the world of power politics and agents of influence. He enters the worlds of Nhem Kiry and Ted Whittlemore, and with humour, intelligence and an unfailing moral sense, brings them to life. This is a novel about guilt and memory, and the awful distance that separates dreams from reality. It is about those people who, as George Orwell put it, are ‘always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled’.

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