Life with the Morgan brothers jump-starts Klas's novel, and through Leo the three become trapped in a conspiracy with connections to Sterner.

As Klas's publisher clamors for a manuscript, Henry goes on the run across Europe while his mad poet brother, Leo, suddenly reappears in Stockholm.

While Klas's novel languishes, Henry recounts his worldly refinement in the world of smoky jazz dens and the bed of sultry femme fatale Maud.

Hiding from shadowy foes, young writer Klas begins the tale of his entanglement with the bourgeois coterie of charismatic, enigmatic Henry Morgan.