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Author: Macqueen, Adam

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 13 March 2025 by Eye Books (Lightning Books) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Tommy Wildeblood’ series.

Paperback | 418 pages
197 x 130 x 29 | 338g

In the age of AIDS and Section 28: a secret that could change political historyIt is 1987, and Tommy Wildeblood has put his days as a Piccadilly Circus rent-boy long behind him. Slightly to his own surprise, he is now a rookie teacher at a South London comprehensive.

But when Margaret Thatcher’s government launches a chilling attack on the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in a new law known as Section 28, Tommy can’t stay silent – especially when he realises he may have information about one of Thatcher’s key lieutenants that could change the political situation completely.

Forming an uneasy alliance with a sharp-elbowed tabloid journalist, and delving deep back into his past on the ‘Dilly’, he puts everything on the line – for both himself and his old friends – in a desperate bid to expose the truth.

With his trademark blend of historical research and ‘what if’ fiction, Adam Macqueen captures the spirit of a frightening age in another spellbinding case that lifts the lid on the Eighties political establishment’s murkiest secrets.