Cirrus@Austlit

'The second novel in The Hogarth Trilogy, in which Hogarth becomes a Dean in his university, learns of an extraordinary story from the war that involves his father, is appointed to assist a Select Committee in Canberra, where he meets an attractive woman, and becomes aware of the intrigue and machinations that mark Australia's becoming involved in the war in Vietnam. The competing demands of politics, principle marriage and attraction mark this most readable novel.' (Publication summary)