Kate Thompson - glamorous housewife-turned-MP - surprises everyone with her meteoric rise at Westminster. When Kate is sent as a trade minister to India, she hopes it will be her moment to shine. But, embroiled in a personal scandal, she gets drawn into a dangerous world of corruption and political intrigue...
Deepak Parrikar - billionaire head of an Indian arms technology company - is magnetically drawn to the beautiful British minister. But while their relationship deepens, India's hostilities with Pakistan reach boiling point, causing more than just business and politics to collide. In the race to prevent disaster, can their conflicting loyalties survive being tested to the limit?
Open Arms is an explosive thriller which circles from Whitehall to the slums of Mumbai. Cable's sweeping tale combines unrivalled political detail with international intrigue, desire, and the quest for power. An electrifying debut.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786491732
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 244 g
Dimensions: 190 x 125 x 20 mm
Edition: Main
Set a few years in the future Open Arms is a contemporary political read balancing right on the edge. The plot was weak with the major event occurring in the very last chapter and cleared up within a matter of pages.... More
I really did not enjoy this. I only made it about 3/4 of the way through before I had to give up. I always give every book a go and will always read it through to the end but with this one I couldn't. The whole... More
Mr Cable knows politics at local and government level. He know Westminster and how the civil service interact with ministers.He know the arms business and quite a lot about India.
He does not know how to write a...
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