Saxby for God

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Dear Miss Sharpe—
I understand you'd like a few personal notes to work up into one of your charming profiles. How kind! Well, here they are, just as they came into my head.
Career then. In a nutshell I'm the brains at Singleton Fisher. And I owe it all to the younger Fisher—Simon. Of course I've worked hard as well but without him I couldn't have got where I am today. I loathed him so much I swore I'd run the bloody show around him. And now I do.
Then Maggie. We loved each other so much and I hurt her so badly. So badly in fact that it scared me. And I over-reacted. I played safe and married Gwen Endersby —straight sex, push, expertise and no nonsense about love. And a walking political machine into the bargain. An empty marriage. The finest asset any would-be politician can have.
Can you wonder I'm so ambitious? However far I get in politics, and let's not beat about the bush, I'm obviously going to hit the jackpot, it will aliuays be measured against what I really needed.... Tovább

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Dear Miss Sharpe—
I understand you'd like a few personal notes to work up into one of your charming profiles. How kind! Well, here they are, just as they came into my head.
Career then. In a nutshell I'm the brains at Singleton Fisher. And I owe it all to the younger Fisher—Simon. Of course I've worked hard as well but without him I couldn't have got where I am today. I loathed him so much I swore I'd run the bloody show around him. And now I do.
Then Maggie. We loved each other so much and I hurt her so badly. So badly in fact that it scared me. And I over-reacted. I played safe and married Gwen Endersby —straight sex, push, expertise and no nonsense about love. And a walking political machine into the bargain. An empty marriage. The finest asset any would-be politician can have.
Can you wonder I'm so ambitious? However far I get in politics, and let's not beat about the bush, I'm obviously going to hit the jackpot, it will aliuays be measured against what I really needed. Shining eyes, a hand on my cheek____
What makes me tick, what drew me to politics? Self-
knowledge____I know I'm ambitious, calculating,
cynical and hard as granite____
"Bob, you'll remember those notes for Penelope Sharpe, won't you? Most important."
I smiled. "I've already begun to toy with ideas "
"Richard Haley can tell a story—which is very rare and very refreshing. And he has genuine emotional power—which is rarer still." — John Braine
SAXBY FOR GOD
Richard Haley
a n uncommon love story of a de-?\termined young politician on his JL m way up and the beautiful woman who is determined to win him, Saxby for God is an unsparing portrait of a supremely confident and self-made man whose intense commitment to a single goal contains the seeds of self-destruction.
At thirty-five, Bob Saxby has it made —a top-level job, a perfect marriage, a burgeoning political career—till an unlooked-for love affair forces him to confront the private man behind the char-(Continued on back flap)
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ismatic campaign image with sudden and shattering result.
Driven by unquenchable ambition, spurred by his wife's unerring political instinct and iron aspirations, Saxby has devoted ten years to perfecting his political image, carefully and cynically shaping his career out of the dreams and deficiencies of those whose lives touch his. Now, with the promise of influential corporate backing, with the political prominence of his wife's family to guarantee a privileged place in his party's hierarchy, with his own golden good looks and easy charm, Saxby seems unstoppable —until lovely and enigmatic Esther Moore enters his life, igniting an unexpected and consuming passion —a passion far stronger than even Saxby's controlled sexual strategies can contain.
For this richly textured likeness of contemporary political and corporate life Richard Haley draws on firsthand experience as an executive in a major multinational corporation and his own astute observation of party politics and the men who control them. Mr. Haley is currently at work on a new novel.
Jacket illustration by Hal Ashmead Vissza