Books.

[dsrtao]

_House of Cards_, by Michael Dobbs. It's the anti-"Yes, Minister". British political thriller in which a senior conservative politician brings down the current leadership and inserts himself at the top, without any concern for ethics or who gets hurt along the way. USAns without a good grasp on the UK governmental scheme will undoubtedly be lost. I wonder what US books assume a similar background knowledge of Federal government?

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[hungrytiger]

As Alexx mentioned, _House of Cards_ was also a brilliant BBC mini-series (although they change the ending dramatically - email me if you want details). I have all three series - House of Cards, To Play the King, and The Final Cut - on VHS as well as all three books. Let me know if you want to borrow any of them.

BTW, Dobbs apparently so preferred the BBC mini-series ending to his own, that that became the retroactive continuity for his 2nd and 3rd books.

[jducoeur]

Thirded. Indeed, I was so taken with the BBC adaptation of House of Cards (after hungrytiger showed it to me) that I essentially wrote the central character in as one of the central characters of one of our LARPs -- he's absolutely the archetype of the sociopathic leader...