Alistair said I should write something I would want to read myself. And I thought about that. I thought that this was good advice. Alistair is always full of good advice. Thats why I like him. That and his socks. history. When I told this to Alistair he smiled. And then he said that the book would need an angle. Something that would catch the readers imagination. Someth Alistair said I should write something I would want to read myself. And I thought about that. I thought that this was good advice. Alistair is always full of good advice. Thats why I like him. That and his socks. history. When I told this to Alistair he smiled. And then he said that the book would need an angle. Something that would catch the readers imagination. Something that would intrigue them. Something that would sex it up. and narrator, is Anthony Algernon St. Michael Blair, the Prime Minister of Britain. He knows a great deal about New Labour, sound bites and why he makes a good leader and very little about the history of Iraq. He loves cheese and hates Gordon Brown. He discovers what he thinks is the central mystery and sets out to investigate it, but subsequently discovers a deception which leaves him forever linked in an uneasy triangle with a stumbling, inarticulate US president and a genocidal dictator.