Who was the author of 1990 novel '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
House of Cards (novel) from office. Urquhart invites O'Neill to his country house near Southampton, gets him drunk, and puts rat poison in his cocaine. Mattie untangles Urquhart's web and confronts him in the deserted roof garden of the Houses of Parliament. He commits suicide by jumping to his death. After the initial TV series the author revised the published novel to bring it in line with the UK TV series, and this allowed for a continuation of the story. The novel was followed by two sequels - "To Play The King" and "The Final Cut". A television adaptation, written by Andrew Davies and