The Illustrious Corpse
By (Author) Tariq Ali
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
12th June 2003
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
58
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
The Home Secretary lies dead on his sofa and his wife Desdemona admits to murdering him. But why did she kill him and why would anyone confess to such a crime Sir Richard Everall of Scotland Yard wants to cover things up and avoid another embarrassing scandal for the Government. But Desdemona is adamant: she wants everyone to know why she murdered the Illustrious Corpse. Murder is high places, political marriage, the complications of party loyalty: all come under dramatic scrutiny in this sharp contemporary satire.
Tariq Ali is a writer and a filmmaker. He has written five novels and over a dozen books on world history and politics. His latest is the acclaimed "The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity." he is currently writing "Bush in Babylon: Recolonizing Iraq."