In this powerful autobiography, the author produces a detailed but eminently readable account of a private and professional life, full of interest and surprise.
From humble origins, Bill Walker became a patent-earning leader in the global development of nuclear medicine scanning, before entering other professional areas.
His private life was less smooth with periods of great happiness, fulfilment, frustration and desperate sadness.
His later entry into elected politics exposed personal and political treachery against him at the highest level.
This first volume is a perfect preparation for the murky world of internal party politics and the author's treatment by a Scottish legal system which, his supporters suggest, had little connection with the pursuit of justice.