A Flaw in the Design'A literary thriller of the highest order' Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir Gil has been estranged from his sister ever since her obnoxious son tried to drown his daughter on a family holiday. That's Gil's interpretation; his sister thinks he was only playing around. Or did. When she and her husband perish in a car crash, Gil becomes his nephew's legal guardian. Matthew is now an urbane 17 year old, raised in Manhattan's Upper East Side, a world