FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES

by Simon Raven ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 30, 1966

Friends in Low Places is actually involved with some low types in high places, society, politics and publishing, and they are certainly not friends. Some of them are however affiliated by their concern in a coming election in which one of the contenders, the editor of the magazine Strix, might be exposed by a homosexual episode in the past. Then there's the wedding of low born Tom Llewellyn to the daughter of a conservative minister who is not above reproach-- he had engaged in an under the table attempt to force the Suez crisis; and finally there's an incriminating letter to that effect which changes grasping hands several times before Mark Lewson, who poaches off rich, older women, procures it and is killed.... The book is one in Raven's Alms for Oblivion series which began last year (The Rich Pay Late) when he planned nine more volumes. All of its seems much too temporal and trivial for such a grand design, particularly since the characters are such an unprepossessing lot.

Pub Date: March 30, 1966

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1966

Categories: FICTION