Robert Service, aged 32, an associate in the law firm of Hoyt, Welles & Andrew, is assured of his ultimate promotion to partnership by the following January Assured because since his brief time at public school he has worked with care to this end, cultivating the right people, creating the right image and covering his absolute ruthlessness he is instantly recognisable as a type essentially of the 1980's and wonderfully repellant His come-uppance is due!