In the final installment of the postWorld War II trilogy that began with the bestselling Paradise Postponed, the merciless MP Leslie Titmuss has been deposed and replaced by Terry Flitton, a centriststyle politician familiar to both sides of the Atlantic. Reprint.
John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole. John Mortimer received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.