For someone famous — and still more for someone infamous, like Jack Profumo — it is a mixed blessing to have a novelist son since as soon as the father is dead and buried the likelihood is that the son will be unable to resist the temptation to tell all in a book, which is what the renowned novelist David Profumo has now done. Furthermore, the better the novelist — and David Profumo is a very good one — the more likely it is that filial piety will be sacrificed to authorial pride; nostalgic sentimentality to penetrating honesty; and a willingness to gild the lily to a steady determination to get at the truth.

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