Anthony Farrant is a loner who jumps from country to country getting and being fired from jobs. His twin sister Kate gets him a job as a bodyguard to her lover, a rich Swedish industrialist which goes okay until Farrant discovers something about his new boss that offends his sense of decency.
I really didn’t get this novel. None of the characters were particularly likeable, it wandered a lot and didn’t hold my attention particularly well. I think this may be because it was particularly character-focussed rather than plot-focussed, and I don’t cope well without a decent plot to hook on to (a problem I had with the Melvyn Bragg book I read recently as well). This perhaps says more about me than about the book, but still, I’m not sure if Greene is really someone I’ll watch out for in future.