Jem - And Sam Author:Ferdinand Mount How does Jeremiah Mount, a dealer in pornography and a failed farmers' son, come to be the lover of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Samuel Pepys? In Pepys's glorious diary, Jem Mount plays a shadowy role, but in Jem's own memoirs Sam Pepys looms larger. Friends and drinking partners at first, they become vicious rivals fo... more »r fame and women. A novel of jealousy and envy as intriguing as the story of Mozart and Salieri -- and no less comic or touching.« less