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Holmes is the ur-citizen detective, but he’s also a gentleman’s version of an anti-establishment figure – content to help Scotland Yard when it and his interests align, but otherwise uninterested in serving the status quo.

"There's always a risk as an opener, that people might be completely uninterested, but this has been the complete opposite," she says.

He was uninterested, or perhaps unable to understand, the reason why America had been the "free world's" security guarantor during the Cold War and almost certainly failed to grasp the complexities of the nuclear age.

His warnings of facing potential military action unless talks were agreed to seem to have fallen on uninterested ears - as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the idea of negotiations, calling it "deception of public opinion".

He’s uninterested in the book’s driving point: Paul’s struggle to make sense of a world where petty rules have supplanted community and common sense.