Chapter 1: The Other Minister
It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a
long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of
meaning behind. He was waiting for a call from the President of a far distant country, and
between wondering when the wretched man would telephone, and trying to suppress
unpleasant memories of what had been a very long, tiring, and difficult week, there was
not much space in his head for anything else. The more he attempted to focus on the print
on the page before him, the more clearly the Prime Minister could see the gloating face of
one of his political opponents. This particular opponent had appeared on the news that
very day, not only to enumerate all the terrible things that had happened in the last week
(as though anyone needed reminding) but also to explain why each and every one of them
was the government's fault.
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