Greed, corruption, financial duplicity, and sex at the heart of the British establishment. Few had the know-how or the audacity to challenge it; fewer still, the tenacity or the skill.

Following his breakdown and indiscriminate sacking of staff at his company, Carlow Mason, Mike Carlow’s preoccupation with power and money ends when his beautiful investment broker wife, Laura, leaves him, and Geoff Mason, his business associate of twenty years, coerces him into applying himself and his millions to the task of changing the system by which Britain is governed.