The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labours three founding architects now with a revealing new chapter updating this paperback edition. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story -- of a life played out in the backroom & then on the frontline of the Labour Party during its unprecedented three terms in government. Much of the book is devoted to the defining political relationships of Peter Mandelsons life -- with Tony Blair & Gordon Brown. Charting what he terms the soap-opera years of the Labour government his book continues to ruffle feathers with an updated preface bringing the story up to the tempestuous present.