书名：House of Cards  纸牌屋

作者：Michael Dobbs迈克尔·道布斯

出版社名称：HarperCollins

出版时间：2007

语种： 英文

ISBN：9780006176909

商品尺寸：12.9 x2.4 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：384 （以实物为准）

House of Cards《纸牌屋》被称为全球经典政治小说，作者是英国作家迈克尔·道布斯。本书自出版以来曾被英美两国两度改编成电视剧，1990年英国BBC将其改编成电视剧后广受好评，被评为英国史上伟大的政治剧之一。美剧自2013年开播以来就迅速风靡全球，热播至今！本书为英文原版，适合有一定英文基础的影迷、书迷们阅读。 推荐理由： 1.全球殿堂级政治小说，奥巴马和白宫、国会山多位政多次推荐的美剧原著小说； 2. 英国政治家、保守党副主席迈克尔·道布斯亲历官场所著，真实可感，精彩异常； 3. 英国原版小说，具体情节虽与美剧略有不同，但语言平静优雅，情节紧凑，整本书一气呵成，其水准远超电视剧版； 4. 原版进口，印刷清晰，纸质护眼，适合长期阅读。 THE BESTSELLING POLITICAL THRILLER THAT INTRODUCED THE SCHEMING FRANCIS URQUHART— THE MOST MEMORABLE POLITICIAN OF THE LAST DECADE. Review“This blood-and-thunder tale, lifelike and thoroughly cynical, certainly carries the ring of authenticity... a great triumph.”— Independent“The exciting thriller that has Westminster buzzing. Here is a political thriller writer with a marvellous inside track knowledge of government.”— Daily Express“It has pace, a beguiling authenticity and a cast of Achilles heels.”— Daily Telegraph“What a brilliant creation F.U. is.” — Sunday Telegraph

House of Cards《纸牌屋》 在首相连任竞选中功不可没的党鞭长弗朗西斯·厄克特本以为自己会入内阁任职，不料未能如愿。于是他暗中发誓要取代背叛自己的首相，搞垮所有的对手。他利用自己可以与闻内阁机密、掌握党内人士隐秘的优势，操控了一个又一个官员，并利用《每日纪事报》里想成为一线政治记者的玛蒂·斯多林，令她在媒体上大做文章。 初战告捷后，他旋即指派手下对内阁展开大规模围剿，紧紧咬住所有人的弱点，除掉了一个又一个对手，扫清了一个又一个障碍，然而他的阴谋也在慢慢地暴露。他能否登上首相宝座，而知道越来越多内幕的玛蒂又能否安然周旋于权力斗争中，并实现自己的理想呢？ Francis Urquhart is Chief Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics— and is willing to betray them all to become Prime Minister. Mattie Storin is a tenacious young political correspondent. She faces the biggest challenge of her life when she stumbles upon a scandalous web of intrigue and financial corruption at the very highest levels. She is determined to reveal the truth, but she must risk everything to do so…

迈克尔·道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学，1975年步入政坛，开始为保守党议员撰写演讲稿，很快崭露头角，被称为“威斯敏斯特的娃娃脸杀手”，后任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，然后于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 身为政治家的同时，他也是畅销书作家。1989年，道布斯讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改成电视剧，风靡全球。他顺势又写出另外两部以厄克特为主角的小说《玩转国王》《最后一击》，完整交代了这位政坛枭雄的精彩一生，这两部小说也都被BBC改编成电视剧。2013年，好莱坞知名导演大卫·芬奇和奥斯卡影帝凯文·史派西联袂出手，再次将《纸牌屋》搬上荧屏，一经播出，再次火爆全球。 Michael Dobbshas carved out a unique niche as Britain’s leading political thriller writer. His books have foretold the downfall of Prime Ministers and the growing turmoil within the Royal Family. Every one has been a Top Ten bestseller. His first novel,Houseof Cards, launched the career of the villainous Francis Urquhart, one of the most memorable fictional characters of recent years. He also appears inTo Play the King andThe Final Cut, and was immortalized by Ian Richardson in three award-winning BBC TV series. For more than two decades Michael Dobbs has been at the right hand of political controversy. He was at Mrs Thatcher’s side as she took her first step into Downing Street as Prime Minister, and was a key aide to John Major when he was voted out. In between times he was bombed in Brighton, banished from Chequers and blamed for failing to secure a Blair-Major television debate. His experiences have led him to be described as “Westminster’s baby-faced hit man’ and ‘a man who, in Latin America, would have been shot”. Michael Dobbs’ most recent novels, featuring his latest political hero, Thomas Goodfellowe MP, are Goodfellowe MP and The Buddha of Brewer Street.

CHAPTER ONE Thursday, 10 June. It seemed scarcely a moment since she had made it back home, stumbling up the last step in exhaustion, yet already the morning sun was sticking thumbs in her eyes as it crept around the curtain and began to nestle on her pillow. She turned over irritably. Her head was thick, her feet sore, and the bed beside her empty. Helping finish off that second bottle of Liebfraumilch had been a lousy idea. She’d let down her defenses, got herself stuck in a corner with some creep from the Sun who was all acne and innuendo. She’d had to spill the last of the wine down his shirt before he’d backed off. She took a quick peek under the duvet, just to make sure she hadn’t screwed up completely and he wasn’t lurking there. She sighed; she hadn’t even got round to taking off her socks.e Mattie Storin beat her pillow into submission and lay back once again. She deserved a few extra moments in bed; she knew she wouldn’t get any sleep tonight. Election night. Day of Damnation. Voters’ Vengeance. The past few weeks had been ferocious for Mattie, under siege from her editor, stretched too tightly between deadlines, tossed between excitement and exhaustion. Maybe after this evening she could take a few days off, sort her life out, find a better quality of both wine and man to spend her evening with. She pulled the duvet more closely around her. Even in the glare of the early summer sun she felt a chill. It had been like that ever since she had left Yorkshire almost a year before. She’d hoped she could leave all the accusations and the anger behind her, but they still cast a cold shadow that followed her everywhere, particularly into her bed. She shivered, buried her face in the lumpy pillow. She tried to be philosophical. After all, she no longer had any emotional distractions, nothing to get in the way of discovering whether she really had what it took to become the best political correspondent in a fiercely masculine world. Only herself to bother about, not even a cat. But it was difficult to be philosophical when your feet were freezing. And when you didn’t have any clean laundry. She threw back the duvet and clambered out of bed, only to discover that her underwear drawer was bare. She’d miscalculated, forgotten, too much to do and so little time to do any of it, least of all the bloody washing. She searched other drawers, every corner, made a mess but found nothing. Damn, she was glad no man had to watch her do this. She dived into her laundry basket, ferreted around and came up with a pair of knickers a week old but only a day worn. She turned them inside out, stepped into them. Ready for battle. With a sigh Mattie Storin threw open the bathroom door and got on with her day.