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Conspiracy thrillers typically occupy the sinister, occasionally apocalyptic, spaces of the human mind. Jackie Richards’ self-billed political mystery offers a different kind of scheme, one as quaint as the romance of a workers’ revolution, only more twee: a bourgeois escapist fantasy rooted in a widely-shared frustration with the stalemated two-party system.