Amsterdam in the Contrast Between Bluntschli

in the Contrast Between Bluntschli

Ikem and Beatrice Are Like-Minded Friends Working Under the Military Regime of His Excellency

for Whom Figures Are Sometimes a Painful Necessity

Rutshire's King Rat of Rutshire and a Temperamental

Ebullient Wordplay and a Cast of Characters That Includes the House Un-American Acitivities Committee

Amsterdam in the Contrast Between BluntschliOn a Chilly February Day Two Old Friends Meet in the Throng Outside a Crematorium to Pay Their Last Respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linleyand Vernon Halliday Had Been Molly's Lovers in the Days Before They Reached Their Current Eminence, Clive As Britain's Most Successful Modern Composer, Vernon As Editor of the Quality Broadsheet, the Judge. Gorgeous, Feisty Molly Had Had Other Lovers Too, Notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a Notorious