The Dancing Men

by Duncan Kyle

Evidence mounts that the grandfather of presidential hopeful John Leyden carried a terrible and deadly secret to his grave, a secret that now threatens to ruin Leyden, his political party, and his country

Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

A pseudonym used by John Franklin Broxholme.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, this book is definitely not my cup of tea.
Politics is unnecessarily complicated in real life, and the fact that this is fiction makes it feel unnecessary to me.
The big twists being an ancestors' dark past and a manageable disease don't make it a fun read (though scandals are fun, I don't see how they affect anything)
I could have done with someone telling what was going to happen in a paragraph.
And the lack of justice was infuriating tbh. Well, 7 years, I finally read this book. I'm just glad it was only 256 pages.
I gave 3 stars because the characters are well written and you're able to form a connection with them.

[CarWag · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a good read this book proved to be. Lost at the back of the bookcase, it could easily have been written for today, as 30 odd years ago.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved Duncan Kyle & Gavin Lyall as a kid - Nice to revisit one I hadn't read - Liked it! Leyden is Biden? Written 1985 and don't think Biden ran until later in the 80s - when he poached that Kinnock speech LOL