Boomfell

Everyone, it seems to Charles Boomfell, has moved on to another world of worries. His break with the past no sooner appears complete than the past recurs. Eliot Singer, his colleague - and betrayer - from seven years before, calls from Toronto needing to talk, "appealing to a loyalty and concern that their relationship hardly warranted" in Boomfell's view. Brilliant, controlling Singer, who had always "shrewdly and steadfastly careered ahead according to his own schedule of set goals," has ...