Beware your ambition.
1979, Britain. Margaret Thatcher is the newly elected Prime Minister and the great world-known millionaire and philanthropist, Sir Ernest Craven dies, leaving over twenty-four million pounds to charitable causes.
His obituary in The Times pays tribute to his meteoric rise from squalid Edwardian poverty to the chairman of the Tempest Plc luxury car brand, owner of a Formula One racing team and one of the world’s most loved and generous characters.
Yet no life is ever quite how it seems. Joining Ernest’s story in 1930, when he was first promoted to a junior management position, we discover how Ernest really rose to fame and fortune, his alliance with Oswald Moseley’s Blackshirts, his corruption at the hands of a colleague and his darker motivation for his later compassion explores how easily a good man can be corrupted and leaves the reader to wonder, can you ever truly make amends for destroying the lives of others?