About the Book

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 Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper "The Judge." 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 Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" ("The Washington Post Book World").

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 208 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Anchor Books (Nov. 30th, 1999)

ISBN-10: 0385494246

ISBN-13: 9780385494243

Dimensions: 5.15 x 8.05 x 0.55 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.43 lbs

• Categories: Literary Fiction and Literature