I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city.
The European Council is a rough, swaggering sort of grouping. It operates not by finding cosy consensus, but by reaching grubby compromise after lots of camp-forming, bribery and bullying.
But when Charles' hidden agenda threatens to expose the government's dirty little secrets, what started out may cost Kathy her career and even her life.
Men broke down truck tyres in dirt-floor garages, their sledges ringing through the trees, and broke each other's bones, now and then, over a woman, or an insult, or an open jug.