Some Rumor of Strange Adventures

A young rogue resolves to reinvent himself. Through hard work and perseverance he attains the ability to pass for a respectable member of the bourgeoisie to ape their mannerisms and simulate their enthusiasms. Thus equipped he enters a respected university. His enjoyment of his new academic milieu - the material comforts the feminine company - is immense but as he becomes integrated into their social structures he begins to discern the deviousness and dishonesty of the mandarins who compose this privileged group. The discovery leads him through a maze of deception right wing philosophy seduction and violence. Internally at war with the malevolence that surrounds him his choices are few: he can rely on the tools of his life of respectability - or he can fall back on the skills that he attained and perfected in his previous existence.