Sole survivor

"[This book] brings Maurice Gee's ... family chronicle up to the present day. The career of Duggie Plum (as ruthless in politics as in sex) is relayed to us ... by his journalist cousin, Raymond Sole. Raymond - known to his family as Raymong and to his enemies as R. Sole - sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage against that of his relationship to Duggie: the charged, competitive, love-hate relationship between a man of action and a man of words."--Back cover.