In Search of the Grail Idenity and his younger pal Buddy

and his younger pal Buddy ("The World's Greatest Piano Player")

and the perverse mysteries of love and death

Millhauser became best known for his short stories

especially in A Handful of Dust—the ironies of primogeniture or high jinks in high places—and The Tide is Right should revive his reputation as one of the most significant of postwar British novelists

In Search of the Grail Idenity and his younger pal BuddyIn Search of the Grail continues Svetislav Basaras Cyclist Conspiracy, a fantastical exploration of civilizational decline told through an array of strange and esoteric documents. Readers are introduced to a secret history of the twentieth century, shown that behind the well known wars and political revolutions of the period numerous secret organizations vied for supremacy through the control of books, knowledge, and dreams. In Search of the Grail