Amsterdam

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Ve
on Halliday had been Molly’s lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain’s most successful mode
composer, and Ve
on is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly’s funeral, Clive and Ve
on will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen…