Smooth-taking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and rtireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast ofthousands to have passed through his busy bed. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief, burdened by an unmentionable past and the unlikehood of ever having a good time in bed.