Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's
increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism, The
Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and
presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually
indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively
readable, it is the much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Coe's
bestselling novel The Rotters' Club, and reintroduces us to the
characters first encountered in that book. But whereas The Rotters'
Club was a novel of innocence, The Closed Circle is its opposite: a
novel of experience.