Description
A story set in London, Paris and pre-Hitler Berlin, centring in the attempts of two genial and indigent intellectual adventurers to obtain the financial backing necessary for their schemes from a young man named Blore-Smith, more fully furnished with ready cash but scarcely cognizant, at the start of the book, with the facts of life, Blore-Smith’s timid and breathless plunge into the world of Maltravers and Chipchase, and his subsequent immersion in the flood-tide of their affairs, followed by his eventual re-emergence on the dry land of his former dull life – a sadder and wiser, yet oddly benefited young man – is described with brevity and astringent wit … (Times Literary Supplenent)
