The Birthday Current: A Novel

Ivor Tesham is a good-looking, single, younger member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a girl in an opportunity encounter–a stunning, leggy, married lady named Hebe–the two turn into lovers obsessive about their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers prefer to name “journey intercourse.”

It’s the dress-up and role-play that encourage Ivor to create a shock birthday current for his beloved that entails a curbside kidnapping. It’s all supposed as mock-dangerous foreplay, however then issues take a darkish flip.

After issues go horribly unsuitable, Ivor begins to obtain nameless letters that reveal astonishingly specific particulars concerning the affair and its aftermath. One way or the other he should maintain his position from being uncovered–and his political future from being destroyed by scandal.

Like a heretic on the inquisitor’s rack, Ivor is to not be spared the exquisitely sluggish and tortuous unfolding of occasions, as hints, nuances, and small revelations lay his darkest secrets and techniques hideously naked for all of the world to see.