"Friends in Low Places is actually involved with some low types in high places, society, politics and publishing, and they are certainly not friends. Some of them are however affiliated by their concern in a coming election in which one of the contenders, the editor of the magazine Strix, might be exposed by a homosexual episode in the past. Then there's the wedding of low born Tom Llewellyn to the daughter of a conservative minister who is not above reproach-- he had engaged in an under the table attempt to force the Suez crisis; and finally there's an incriminating letter to that effect which changes grasping hands several times before Mark Lewson, who poaches off rich, older women, procures it and is killed ..."--Goodreads