The main protagonist of CK Stead's politically ruminative tale is a strangely untouchable fellow.
Friends and relations drop like flies around him; ex-wives remarry and "love-children" pop up from nowhere; odd East Europeans give him access codes to millions of pounds. All of these would drive the average person quite deranged but, throughout it all, Sam Nola remains cool, detached, quoting appropriate pieces of poetry and trying to keep the many women who fancy him at bay.
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