"Brilliant and timely political who-done-it.

"Having been a press officer for a US Senator for a number of years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the inner workings of Capitol Hill. To my mind, Powell has masterfully combined the timeliness of today’s political intrigue with a gripping detective story/who-done-it. By bringing the mind-boggling, swirling mess that is Washington politics down to the level of one family’s pain held me glued to the page.

"What I found particularly remarkable was how easily I found myself sympathizing with the ‘villain’, and how well-crafted and human was Powell’s plea that we need finally to bring common sense back to our government and its approaches to critical problems facing the country and the world.

"A deceptively easy read – given its thunderous message – Term Limits should be required reading for every new politician heading to Washington."

Alan Steele-Nicholson, press officer for (former) US Senator Jacob Javits, New York