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By: Christopher Meyer

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Paperback | 11 April 2023 | Edition Number 1

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Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister''s Press Secretary - a Sunday Times bestseller

Christopher Meyer was Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, during which time he was an eyewitness to and participant in the events following 9/11 and the preparations for the Iraq war. Never before has there been such a riveting and candid memoir of life behind the diplomatic scenes. Meyer''s is an honest account of what he saw, what he heard and how he felt.

The cast list of characters who feature here includes Margaret Thatcher, Bob Hope, the Clintons, Steven Spielberg, Condoleeza Rice, Alastair Campbell and Jack Straw. The book reveals close encounters with Tony Blair, Robin Cook and Peter Mandelson; KGB honey traps in Russia; a major row with Bill Clinton; inside stories on Number 10 and the Foreign Office; and of course life behind the scenes with Blair and George W. Bush. It was clear that the Prime Minister''s office and not the Foreign Office would control relations with Washington, and Meyer shows in close up how he helped facilitate the ''special relationship''.

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it is delightfully undiplomatic - brimming with barbed comments, colourful anecdotes and amusing assesments of No 10's top talent. - THE GUARDIAN - Aimee Shalan

'...absorbing account by Meyer of his tenure as ambassador to Washington during distinctly interesting times. His descriptions of the building of new Labour's relationship with the US administration, and the battles between the foreign office and No 10 are fascinating'. - SUNDAY TIMES,

the insights into buffoons who run amok in our name makes this a rude, iconoclastic delight. - THE HERALD - Martin Tierney

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Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Illustrations	p. xv
Foreword to the Paperback Edition	p. xvii
Vanity and Ambition	p. 1
The View from the Bunker	p. 13
Nothing Personal, Jean-Luc	p. 21
A Small Town in Germany	p. 26
New Labour Has Landed	p. 32
Catherine's Story	p. 38
The Hand of God	p. 46
Lying Abroad	p. 54
The Great House	p. 65
Sir Winston Churchill's Ghost	p. 72
Like Brothers	p. 83
Sex	p. 92
Blair for President	p. 97
'Up Yours, King!'	p. 105
The Great Banana War	p. 115
The Road to Austin	p. 127
Dubya	p. 140
Republicans at the Gates	p. 155
Toothpaste	p. 171
Ten Days that Shook the World	p. 182
The Big Beasts	p. 207
War	p. 222
'I'm an Ass-hole from El Paso'	p. 263
That's Diplomacy!	p. 270
Hindsight	p. 278
Index	p. 285
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