Description

Among the most daring and stunning writers currently employed in Language assumes the enigma of the Cambridge agents in a book of beautiful nuisance, biting social comedy, and vertiginous ethical difficulty. The narrator may be the aged Victor Maskell, previously of British intelligence, for several years art specialist to the King. Today he's been unveiled as a Russian representative and put through a shame that's nearly a type of death. But at whose instigation?As Maskell retraces his tortuous route from his hiring at Cambridge towards the airless top parts of the institution, we find a number of manifold doubleness: Englishman and Irishman; spouse, lover, and father of men; dupe and betrayer.