What is House of Cards (novel)?
{{unsourced|date=December 2022}} {{italic title}} '''''House of Cards''''' is a [[novella]] by [[Baron]] [[Michael Dobbs]]. Dobbs was in the British [[House of Lords]] in the 1980s. After an argument with [[Margaret Thatcher]], Dobbs decided to write a [[book]] whose [[protagonist]] was an [[evil]] [[politician]] with the [[initials]] F.U. So he made a [[fictional character]] named [[Francis Uruqhart]]. ==Plot== In the book, Uruqhart finds out that a [[man]] named Roger O’Neal is [[addict]]ed to [[cocaine]] and [[blackmail]]s O’Neal into helping him while Uruqhart has an affair with a [[female]] [[journalist]] named Mattie Storin so she will write the [[stories]] that he wants her to [[write]]. Then Roger O’Neal’s [[girlfriend]] breaks up with him so he has a [[nervous breakdown]]. He is [[angry]] with Uruqhart so Uruqhart gets O’Neal [[drunk]] until he falls asleep and puts [[rat]] [[poison]] in O’Neal’s [[cocaine]] to [[kill]] him and make the [[murder]] look like a [[suicide]]. Uruqhart feels [[guilt]]y about that so when Mattie asks him if he [[kill]]ed Roger O’Neal he [[kill]]s himself by [[jumping]] off a [[balcony]]. ==BBC TV show== The [[BBC]] made a [[television]] [[miniseries]] created by [[Andrew Davies]] based on the book and called it House of Cards. In it, [[Francis Uruqhart]] was played by [[Ian Richardson]]. The show changed the ending to Uruqhart [[kill]]ing Mattie Storin so that he could become [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]]. After the show was a success, Dobbs wrote two books as [[sequel]]s to it called ”To Play the King” and ”The Final Cut” both of which were adapted into the show. ==US version== In 2013, [[Netflix]] made an American version of the [[television series]] ''[[House of Cards (American TV series)|House of Cards]]'' created by [[Beau Willimon]] starring [[Kevin Spacey]] as [[Frank Underwood (House of Cards)|Frank Underwood]]. [[Category:1989 books]] [[Category:British novellas]]