Fire And Fury is the hottest book of 2018 - too bad it's so dull

THE excerpts from Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury that began to run in early January read like a strychnine cocktail.

President Donald Trump excoriated his former chief strategist, Stephen K Bannon, who had talked extensively and intemperately for the book, and became notably hysterical, even for him, on Twitter.

Readers dissected the available tidbits so passionately that Mr Wolff's publishers pushed up the date the tell-all would arrive in stores. More than one Uber driver asked me what else I thought the book would reveal.

But now I've read Fire And Fury, and it's clear that Mr Wolff has managed a feat even more daunting …