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Stanley Johnson poses for a portrait as he talks to the Associated Press at the London Book Fair, about his forthcoming thriller based around a fictitious Brexit scenario, in London, Thursday, March 16, 2017. In the political thriller "Kompromat," a political earthquake is shaking Britain and the European Union, a populist tide is sweeping the West and a resurgent Russia is pulling invisible strings. British author Stanley Johnson found gallons of real-life fuel for his forthcoming Brexit thriller. As a former senior EU official, and father of Brexit-backing British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, he's exceptionally well placed to turn political fact into fiction. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)