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D C Confidential by Christopher Meyer (view source)
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I was in two minds about whether or not to buy this book for reasons I'll explain later. It was only when three other family members said that they wouldn't mind reading it that I succumbed and parted with my money to Amazon. Now I wish I hadn't.
Excerpts from the book were published in The Guardian and The Daily Mail in early November 2005 and it seemed that the book might offer a different perspective on the relationship between the UK and the USA in the period before the Iraq war - a subject in which I'm very interested. Certainly the serialisation suggested a new view of George W Bush and an insight into the relationships between various politicians. Unfortunately what I found was that the newspapers had cherry-picked the best bits and what was left was barely worth the read.
Christopher Meyer went to Bonn as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Germany. He'd recently separated from his wife, or "''my then wife" '' as her refers to her. We never know her name and she doesn't even get into the index, rather like Edwina Currie in John Major's memoirs. Meyer makes no secret of his enjoyment of his status as a single man and falls for the charms of a lady with whom the Embassy had a rather difficult relationship because of their inability to help her gain access to her children. They'd been abducted by her German ex-husband. Having seen a picture of Miss Laylle, Meyer decides, against protocol, to see her on his own.
''She sensed my eyes boring into her calves like red-hot pokers''.
The book's not recommended. If you're really interested in what he has to say about some of our politicians go and trawl through the newspaper archives and get the most titillating bits for free.
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