Traitors Gate

Jeffrey Archer

Having read it

★★★☆☆

A couple of good bits in amongst the mostly skipping and skimming of a plot that just seemed predictable, tired and lost somewhat in its own point and being a bit of a tour guide of English places and traditions for the international market.

A good passage

She [Queen Elizabeth II] looked up to see the Law Lords perched around the Woolsack in front of her, the bishops in ecclesiastical dress seated in their reverend places, while the remainder of the red benches were filled with the ancient and the modern, from the hereditary fifteenth Duke of Hamilton to a recently ennobled life peer from Weston-super-Mare. Her gaze moved on to the bar of the House at the far end of the chamber and settled on Tony Blair, her tenth Prime Minister, who was standing next to the Leader of the Opposition, John Major, who looked as if he hadn’t been invited to this party.