"Which author wrote the political conspiracy thriller ""House of Cards""?"
House of Cards (novel) House of Cards (novel) House of Cards is a political thriller novel by British author Michael Dobbs. Published in 1989, it tells the story of Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, and his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A television adaptation, written by Andrew Davies and produced by the BBC was aired in 1990. In 2013, the serial and the Dobbs novel were the basis for a US television adaptation set in Washington, D.C., commissioned and released by Netflix. The novel was
Political thriller "Z", "Three Days of the Condor", "V For Vendetta", "Romero", "City Hall", "Air Force One", "Snowden" and "The Post". Several post-9/11 political thriller films refer to the September 11 attacks or terrorism in general. Shonda Rhimes' television series, "Scandal", contains many elements of a political thriller in a chronological format. The 1990 British drama serial, "House of Cards", later adapted for Netflix in 2013, is a political thriller set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The former ABC and now Netflix series, "Designated Survivor", depicts the political power struggle that follows as