Rick and Ian have lunch with Sir Marcus Fullerton and his candidate for the proposed third senior vice president of the European operation; Ian and Rickard are unimpressed. When Ian informs Sir Marcus of his and Rickard"s opinion the financier exacts his revenge by informing a number of newspaper reporters that the author of Ian"s book A Little Bit of Levity is employed at AmerConCorp"s London office. During a visit to Michael"s family in Dorset a mid-November week-end is agreed with Luke offering to see about hotel reservations at the venue. The party is a huge success. The General, Mrs Schultzer and Helge Rheinhardt all attend, at the same time taking a week"s vacation, their first holiday in thirty years. Ian is required to fly to Boroburg at very short notice to give a presentation to four of the Corporation"s major stockholders. He then has to return to Boroburg with the General immediately after the civil partnership party for an entire week during which he makes...