In High Places focuses as never before on the world of politics, taking us into the very core of any nation's power, its government. In this, one of his greatest achievements, he exposes the passions that seethe behind the blank facades of government offices as politicians in power fight to stay there - bartering, back-stabbing, browbeating, bribing with honours, money and women.In Ottawa, Vancouver and Washington three apparently unconnected events bring startling consequences for the head of a great government - a man whose destiny hangs, on a scrap of paper...

Arthur Hailey was born in 1920 at Luton, where he attended school, then worked as an office boy and clerk. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined Force and rose through the ranks to become a pilot and Flight Lieutenant. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada successively a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a full-time author in 1956 following the overnight success of his television play 'Flight into Danger' which was performed worldwide, later becoming a novel and a film. In his long career as a novelist he wrote eleven novels which have been published in twenty-seven languages. Arthur Hailey died on November 24, 2004.