In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one ",a quivering condom of neurosis a nd ineptitude,", the other a ",bundle of contempt, vanity a nd stock-response",--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, a nd disappointed love, a nd throws in a disloyal girlfriend a nd a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry.