About the Author

JAMES LANDALE is an experienced journalist who is currently the Chief Political Correspondent for BBC News 24. Before joining the BBC in January 2003, he spent ten years working at The Times, most recently as Assistant Foreign Editor. He lives in London.

Reviews

"A Scoundrel only needs to fight a duel and he ceases to be a scoundrel." Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Poulain de St Foix, a French gentleman and writer, was once challenged to a duel by a man whom he asked to sit further away because he stank. ' "I will fight you if you insist, but I don't see how that will end the matter,' St Foix told the malodorous man. 'If you kill me, I shall smell too. If I kill you, you will smell, if possible, worse than you do at present." Philip Rush