In the culminating volume in the trilogy, writer Adam Morris and his high-flying Cambridge contemporaries find themselves at the peak of influence and success as New Labour and the Blair boom years take them high on the slippery pole of success At the same time, they begin to fear the moment when seniority will render them superfluous Adam, as astringent as ever, continues to stand centre stage, but his other contemporaries too play their vivid and energetic parts Alan Parks still commands the nation's screens and microphones movie director Mike Clode continues to pursue the bitch goddess Success Joyce Hadleigh realises an unlikely ambition when she becomes joined at the hype with Samuel Marcus Cohen, English literature's Nobel laureate-in-waiting The younger generation too is growing into unpredictable potency