Price New from Used from Paperback 'Please retry' 26.99 26.99 Paperback26.99 2 New from26. It is about those people who, as George Orwell said, are 'always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled'. Figurehead Paperback Maby Patrick Allington(Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars1 rating 3.6 on Goodreads 39 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. He enters the worlds of Nhem Kiry and Ted Whittlemore, and with humour, intelligence and an unfailing moral sense, brings them to life.įigurehead is about guilt and memory, and the awful distance that separates dreams from reality. In this gripping novel, Patrick Allington takes readers deep into the world of power politics and agents of influence. In the intervening decades, as he tries to make sense of what went wrong, it is as if Kiry's life has become intertwined with his own. When the Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia, Whittlemore watches, fascinated and horrified, as the ideals he holds dear are translated into unfathomable violence. The consequences haunt him for the rest of his days.
In the late '60s, he saves Nhem Kiry, soon to become known as 'Pol Pot's mouthpiece'. Ted Whittlemore, a radical Australian journalist, does just that. What if you saved a man's life and he went on to play a leading role in one of the bloodiest revolutions of modern times?
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