A highly successful young entrepreneur, Graham Robinson, who is a delegate to the 1984 Conservative Party Conference, leaves Brighton’s Grand Hotel minutes before the bomb explodes in the attempt to assassinate UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. By a curious coincidence a young man whom Robinson met at Brighton on the night of the bombing is also one of a group of anarchists, who, decades later, plant a similar bomb at a shopping and leisure centre which Robinson is developing. The novel follows the life, loves, friendships and politics of Robinson, a kindly and community-minded man, who is traumatised when the Press unfairly dub him as “The Worst Landlord in Britain”. The mystery romance concludes happily for him as the anarchists are rounded up, he marries a loving, sensible woman after years of being obsessed with his sexually incontinent first wife, and he is knighted for his business and charitable work.