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A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch tells the story of Julius King, an academic biochemist who cruelly bets with Morgan Browne that he can dissolve the relationship between the loving gay couple, Axel Nilsson and Simon Foster, by exploiting the emotional fissures in their bond, while also seeking to ruin the marriage of Hilda and Rupert Foster, intertwining the lives of friends and family in a web of manipulation and betrayal. Sensitive topics include Holocaust survival and the development of biological weapons.