Axel Gold was jinxed. Germans bombed him, the British starved him and his father abandoned him. As a man, his true love cuckolds him and he seems doomed to spend his life seeking truth and beauty on a planet run by deceit and corruption. Only in midlife does a long-suppressed memory free him to take the world as he finds it, and to profit by it.

Axel and George were childhood buddies. One becomes a journalist, the other survives Vietnam to become a filmmaker. It takes an Argentine beauty named Molly to set the friendship asunder.

Lush, lusty and politically incorrect—an irreverent, rollicking tale of the resilience of the human spirit and triumph of the underdog.