Novel Differences
In the novel, but not in the television series:
- Urquhart does not kill Georgios and Euripides Pasolides in a lone operation but, as an officer, is responsible for their deaths.
- Urquhart successfully thwarts the attempt to build a statue in honour of Margaret Thatcher. (Its erection is a theme -- of political mortality -- running through the television series.)
- Makepeace does not openly challenge Urquhart for the leadership of their party but leads a popular movement against the Prime Minister.
- Urquhart faces losing a general election and he is urged to resign by his Cabinet Ministers to keep his undefeated record.
- Mattie Storin's murder is not mentioned and the information not revealed to Makepeace.
- Urquhart is not suspected as the murderer of Georgios and Euripides Pasolides until all is revealed at the end.
- Urquhart is not assassinated on Corder's orders, but allows the brother of the men he killed in Cyprus to shoot him, making himself a martyr in the process.
- Makepeace does not succeed Urquhart but is tarred by association with Urquhart's assassin as planned.
- It is unclear whether Urquhart beats Margaret Thatcher's record in office as the longest-serving post-war prime minister.
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