Jubilee - Hardcover

Adrift in his career and marriage, former presidential speechwriter Sam Gilchrist retreats to Cape Cod, where he recalls his involvement in a covert plan to topple a liberal British administration, a plot that tests his personal and professional allegiances.

t -- former presidential speechwriter, half English, half American -- now contemplates the failure of his marriage and his career, washed up on the shore of Reagan's America. On retreat to Cape Cod, he realizes that in order to forestall personal collapse he will have to come to grips with the moment in his life that he would most like to forget. In London in 1977, at the height of his success, he finds himself drawn into a painful and passionate affair. Ruth, his lover, introduces him to a stranger who relates a mesmerizing story -- a shocking "dirty tricks" conspiracy by disenchanted patriots to topple the British administration. At the conclusion of their meeting, stirred and fascinated by these allegations, Gilchrist makes a promise. But almost immediately he discovers that to keep it he may have to betray his own father, a distant but powerful figure at the heart of the British ruling class.

Now, five years later, his father is dead and the stranger's predictions have come