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.
