I had to get a new book from Central Library and it being the Booker season I thought of getting a Booker Prize winning book. Of course our dear Krishnadas Shama Library was never that perceptive that it would predict the latest Booker winner https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/26/man-booker-prize-winner-paul-beatty-the-sellout-interview
Given that fact, I started poking around the stacks and when I came across Ian McEvan's *Amsterdam *which won the Booker prize in 1998, I said this is my latest book. So I borrowed the book and as I began browsing through the book I said to myself: "Hey, this book is prescient - it was written about an incident that purportedly happened in 1996 but which has foreshadowed or predicted what happened 2 decades later!" Q: What happened 2 decades later, meaning 2016? A: The* L'affaire* Keith Vaz. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/married-mp-keith-vaz-tells-8763805# At the heart of *Amsterdam* is the story of a Julian Garmony, UK Foreign Secretary, a politician who is on the rise getting his political knickers in a moral twist after the death of a former mistress who was a photographer. This happens after the intimate photos she took of him cross dressing get into the hands of his political enemies. The Wikipedia entry does not exactly reveal what my reading tells me about Ian McEwan's book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_%28novel%29 - but never mind - people's perceptions differ. However the point I want to make is that I was stunned that the plot of *Amsterdam* followed the Keith Vaz story so closely - if one only exchanges Garmony's cross-dressing with Vaz's encounters with drugs and male prostitutes - the plot is identical. They say fiction imitates reality; I think that sometimes reality imitates fiction - albeit two decades later and in a more vicious way. Moral of the story: Politicians should read more fiction. Best Augusto