Ivan Brekov, his ex-Cambridge roommate is a hard drinking, womanising mastermind who has just led Russia's Communist Party to a stunning triumph in Russia. Together they are poised to change the world in terrifying style, but the dramatic kidnap of the Prime Minister's stunning celebrity wife and the chaos that ensues brings the political animal to its knees in this sensational thriller from Noel Botham...A novel for our times, The Downing Street...

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way - not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the...