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Advertising businessmen Jude and Donald seek a magazine to expand their influence in 1950s London. MP Peter Morrison opposes the takeover, setting off a struggle in which commercial ambition, blackmail, fraud, and private betrayals become intertwined.

A letter that could expose embarrassing truths about Suez becomes the prize in a political struggle. Ministers, an editor, gamblers, and people on society's margins become entangled in bargaining and blackmail over information capable of damaging the government.

Cambridge academic Daniel Mond travels to postwar Göttingen to decipher a dead professor's scientific papers. His research intersects with a British cavalry squadron preparing for nuclear conflict, exposing scholars and soldiers to dangers hidden within the inherited work.

At an English public school in 1945, talented and popular Fielding Gray pursues desires that challenge the institution's conventions. His involvement with another student sets him against adults and classmates whose loyalties are complicated by ambition and self-interest.

Commissioned by the BBC to investigate Cyprus's independence, Fielding Gray revisits the crisis that ended his military career. Mysterious accidents obstruct his research, while an encounter with a young man reawakens troubling memories of an earlier love affair.

Student unrest threatens the established order at Lancaster College in postwar England. A revolutionary agitator intensifies the conflict, drawing members of Raven's recurring social circle into a struggle where institutional authority, sexual relationships, and personal interests collide.

Young British cadets arrive in Bangalore after the Second World War as colonial rule in India begins to crumble. Peter Morrison and his companions confront changing military authority and rising nationalism amid the fading assumptions of empire.

Tom Llewyllyn and Somerset Lloyd-James help script an Odyssey film to be shot on Corfu, enlisting Fielding Gray's classical knowledge. Conflicting demands from filmmakers and their financial backers turn the project into a contest over sex, politics, and interpretation.

An English politician's apparent suicide alarms associates who fear the exposure of his secrets. As inquiries begin and reputations come under pressure, the dead man's connections reveal a society more concerned with protecting itself than discovering the truth.

A literary congress brings Raven's recurring characters to Venice in 1973, alongside scholars and wealthy gamblers. Fielding Gray investigates an enigmatic manuscript and an old family connection, uncovering material that threatens the comfortable world assembled around him.