This Was a Man opens with a shot being fires, but who pulled the
trigger, and who lives and who dies?
In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his
wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in
a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus,
while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the
Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives an unexpected call from
Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.