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 novel, one of Arthur Hailey’s greatest achievements, the passions that seethe behind the blank facades of government offices are exposed, as politicians in power fight to stay there – bartering, back – stabbing, browbeating, bribing with honors, 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….