The Making of MR Bolsover

NAME: Lynch, Andrew (b. 16.10.1958); a.k.a. 'Mr Bolsover'

CAREER: civil servant, librarian, columnist, local councillor, revolutionary

RECREATIONS: shooting squirrels, skinning rabbits, cooking with rats

ADDRESS: present whereabouts unknown; last sighted in South Downs woodland close to the A275

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: cataloguing systems, hermits, badger welfare, troglodytes, revolutionary politics

But a WHO'S WHO entry can reveal only so much. Like all the great political lives - Churchill, Disraeli, Gladstone, Genghis Khan - Bolsover's is one of incident, drama and passion: from the calm of Uckfield library to the demands of high office, a life on the run - and a final confrontation with the authorities...