The year is 2010: Obama is ordering drone strikes in Pakistan, Justin Bieber is the biggest star in the world, Joseph Ratzinger is wiping his ass in the Vatican, and some men would sooner get HIV than be tested for it. In Cape Town, Dixon Thompson, cricket scribe and premature-ejaculating philanderer, is fending off a Nazi with one hand while fondling a foreign exchange student with the other at Crazy Joe’s Tavern in Long Street. Up the stairs, disgraced pianist Daniel Rademeyer is tickling the ivories in such a profoundly morose fashion that his sister’s eyes are threatening to roll into the back of her skull. This is the tragicomic account of how two men and the women they love became embroiled in the machinations of one Laurence Chalmers, BSc (Psych)-the Oxford psychologist who is not quite who he says he is … But then again, who is?