"Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalysis practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Robert, a genius professor of mathematical linguistics, was apparently killed by rent boys in Los Angeles and Jay was the first on the scene." "Author Dana Flynn is determined to scratch beneath the surface while researching a biography she intends to write about Robert, and finds that Jay's life is as morally dubious as his personal relationships."--BOOK JACKET.