On the two hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - this is the riveting untold story of the murder, the murderer and the repercussions of his act
Andro Linklater is the author of Measuring America: How An Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy, The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity, and An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson. He lives in England.
Andro Linklater's Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die is a beautifully
written portrait of an overlooked prime minister and a fascinating
account of his assassination during the Napoleonic Wars
*Antony Beevor*
Enjoyable if ultimately eccentric survey ... He is entertaining on
the temper of the times
*Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times Ireland*
Written with novelistic pace and the literary devices of a
potboiler, the book is really two in one. The first, an overview of
Perceval's neglected career, is sure-footed and worthy. The second,
a breathlessly conspiratorial account of his death, is compulsively
readable and wildly implausible
*The Wall Street Journal*
Deftly sniffing out political machinations and murderous
conspiracies, Linklater has written a richly atmospheric,
engrossing and authoritative account of an assassination that,
Linklater notes, shook the world 200 years ago as forcefully as
JFK's assassination did in our time
*Publishers Weekly*
Andro Linklater makes good use of the excellent copy that this
story affords
*Literary Review*
Fascinating ... as a popular account of a unique event in British
history ... it stands up well
*London Review of Books*
Linklater skilfully unpeels the onion of this enigma to identify
the forces that led to the assassination ... an entertaining and
deftly structured piece of historical detective work
*Times Literary Supplement*
The facts revealed by letters, diaries and court records are
fascinating enough. Linklater's book has more value than a
historical whodunit. It helps us to understand the turbulent times
and series of events that the author believes, inevitably, led to
Perceval's assassination. It gives us a genuine understanding of
the two key figures: the prime minister and his murderer
*Sunday Express*
Fascinating
*Tribune*
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