Caledonian Road

London, Thursday, May 20, 2021, the temperature is 16 degrees, it is clear, later there will be showers. When Campbell Flynn, 52 years old and at the height of his fame as a public intellectual, steps out of the taxi that day, he is still preoccupied with thoughts of a new journalistic project. Coming from humble beginnings, he now counts among the elite of the United Kingdom: his wife, the daughter of a countess, his best friend, an industrialist, his brother-in-law, an influential politician, his life scheduled with lectures, openings, and society events. His weakness, his vanity, and his dealings with money. His adversary: his favorite student. Over the course of a sensational year, a web of crimes, secrets, and scandals is uncovered; and Campbell Flynn, the pivot of this monumental social novel, which stretches its tendrils into both shady factories and elegant chambers, into the minds of illegal immigrants as well as the heads of exploitative capitalists and corrupt parliamentarians, Campbell Flynn, this epitome of the liberal, educated white man, will fall like the era he embodies. "A masterpiece... extraordinary... the best and greatest novel anyone has written in this country for a long time." John Lanchester. "His magnum opus, more than just a great book." Joshua Cohen.