The Second Greatest Inevitability

Meet David Shapsdale. An entertainer with high class. A maven of fine wines. A lover of English literature. A charming intellectual. And a man with a shadowy past in a faraway country.
On a cold winter's night in his adopted homeland, as David hosts a lavish party for many powerful friends, a mysterious yet familiar guest arrives.
David happily welcomes the young man, believing that he comes as an old friend who, to his pleasant surprise, has survived what the popular society figure calls "th...