While They Were Dying

<p><strong><em>For the Sink Set a group of moneyed sophisticates the distant death and destruction of the 2003 Iraq War is sobering but coincidental a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on. In leafy Surrey all seems as it ever was…</em></strong></p><p><em> —</em>A view from America’s closest ally of a numbing hi-tech war launched on an unproved pretext; of the consequent world-wide mass protests murderous bombings Government denials political resignations judicial inquiries blazing headlines impassioned speeches…</p><p>Samuel Peter Shaw’s novel blends fact with fiction to show how governments can lose their way…how nations can awake too late…how counter-argument can become futile.</p><p>Gradually the horrors and political manoeuvrings of the war are mirrored in the disintegration of the prize-winning architect Colly Wolfson. For him the war becomes entwined with two earlier lasting tragedies.</p><p>Disturbed and with his marriage crumbling Wolfson drifts into simultaneous love affairs—and the cracks in his life begin to spread through the Sink Set...</p><p>Step by step they unhinge him; the obsessions of Blair and Bush invade his own obsessions; his closest friends become infected—and the path to redemption seems forever downwards…</p>