St. Aubyn is winking so hard at the reader in these passages you can almost feel a breeze. He clearly gets that “Parallel Lines” and its predecessor, “ Double Blind,” are as crowded with ...

MONUMENT — Jackson St. Aubyn is more than just a 6-foot-5, 271-pound hitting machine for Palmer Ridge’s football team. He’s one of the area’s best scholar athletes.

St. Aubyn regularly unleashes his caustic wit, at one point to ridicule world leaders (George W. Bush and his father on one side of the pond, David Cameron and Boris Johnson on the other).

St Aubyn shares Patrick’s world of rarefied privilege (the ancestral baronetage was created by Charles II) and before he inflicted it upon his alter ego, he underwent the same abuse, addiction and ...

St. Aubyn’s new novel, “Double Blind,” examines a wide range of scientific thought, with detours into sex, drugs and venture capital.