London: There is something deliciously fitting in the fact that it is the American journalist Michael Wolff who has taken the axe to Donald Trump.

Wolff, whose trade is writing about big business and media, and whose previous most famous book was about Rupert Murdoch, is a man about whom few have a good word to say, a journalistic bruiser in designer suit and spectacles, often accused of making up things to suit his own agenda.

He may remind you of someone.

The first thing to be said about Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House is that it is absolutely tremendous and impossible to put down and delivered in a punchy, abrasive style.