The Final Cut

This is the last instalment of the extraordinary saga about scheming politician Francis Urquhart.

For more than a decade Urquhart has towered above the parliamentary scene. But the county appears to be growing tired of him. The end of an era, they say, time for a change. Yet Urquhart is not ready to retire, still less to be driven from office. If the public demand new blood, that is precisely what he will give them. The blood of his cabinet critics - even the blood of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus - will be freely shed as he takes his battle to survive onto the international stage.

This is a different Francis Urquhart - more vulnerable, more loving, and more ruthless than ever. He will risk everything, but one thing is certain: whatever the outcome of this, his greatest gamble, the name of Francis Urquhart will never be forgotten.