Backstory

Ansel Tone has been named "The Golden Boy of Popular History." He teaches propaganda at Columbia University and hawks a series of "Redux Revisionist History" best-sellers on late night talk shows. He trades on his good looks and family wealth to drive fast cars and run with glamorous women, though his personal life is poised between an overbearing father and a son he hardly knows.

Ansel attends a reunion of six friends who studied at Trinity College in Dublin, cloaked in four-hundred-years ...