Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. "Kennedy's prose is lively and assured." --The New York Times Book Review A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is fifty-nine and divorced, a senior civil servant in London who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. Meg Williams is a bankrupt accountant--two words you don't want in the same sentence, or anywhere...