The Untouchable

"...Maskell is more than a thinly veiled Blunt..., and the book is much more than a roman clef....[It] is as much a social history and a comedy of manners as it is a novel of espionage, Jane Austen by way of Quentin Crisp and John le Carre....Victor Maskell is one of the great characters in recent fiction....The ultimate unreliable narrator, he is a brilliant and sophisticated man who devotes his life to lies and betrayals, only to realize much too late just whom he is betraying."John Banville is the author of 'The Untouchable' with ISBN 9780754000624 and ISBN 0754000621.