?A politician was a man apart, with power lent to him while it lasted, a sack of bones in a suit coat thereafter.?
?A politician was a man apart, with power lent to him while it lasted, a sack of bones in a suit coat thereafter.?
Years ago, in a midnight encounter beside the railroad tracks, a young boy meets a stranger with a powerful secret, a gift of uncanny understanding and a talent for knots. From this encounter, Marcus Friendly's ideas of himself take shape as he rises to become Australia's sixteenth Prime Minister. The night he dies, a shadow, ?thin as a scythe?, is there to collect him when he falls. Another young boy, Ross Devlin, witnesses the event.