Philip Progmire, an Oxford-educated accountant with thespian dreams, has engaged in lifelong skirmishes with scornful and skeptical journalist Dick Dunster. When Dunster digs up dirt on Philip's employer and friend—a hideous legacy of WW II—Progmire is forced to make some terrible choices among truths, loyalties, and responsibilities.
Philip Progmire, an Oxford-educated accountant with thespian dreams, has engaged in lifelong skirmishes with journalist Dick Dunster, one of those men whose stock-in-trade is scorn and who disbelieve everything on principle. When Dunster digs up what he believes is the dirt on Philip's employer and friend—a hideous legacy of WW II—Progmire is forced to make some terrible choices among truths, loyalties, and responsibilities.