Illusions in Blue

Illusions in Blue (ISBN 9781326985981) by Stephen Reardon is a political thriller set in London in the UK. A promising Whitehall civil servant, Alan Stacey, heads the private office of a rising junior minister, Hugh Stephenson, who is being tipped for promotion to the prime minister's cabinet. The normal busy routine of the private office staff and their minister is suddenly pitched into a hidden parallel world of intrigue and deception when a mysterious and perplexing security breach is discovered. Illusions in Blue relates the events of three weeks in the mid-1970s when the government minister comes under psychological attack involving his suppressed guilt over the death of his wife, while Stacey is skillfully seduced into breaking the rules for him. Illusions in Blue is a work of fiction.