Tubal McArthur, fledgling investigator at the BIO has landed the case of a lifetime. It will take him from squalid council flats to corruption at the top of the Inland Revenue and a mysterious ‘fixer’ for Middle Eastern princes and millionaires. Accompanied by the outwardly demure but highly efficient Felicity Francis, Tubal must locate the elusive Patrick Sweeney, the mastermind facilitating a massive fraud in Surrey Docks, London. Fast cars, loose women, and Tubal’s close encounter with armed police lead them on to investigate the identity of ‘Revenue Man’; a senior officer accepting prostitutes, and all expenses paid foreign travel in exchange for quashing tax liabilities for the rich and powerful.

An irreverent look, set in the 1980s, at the Inland Revenue’s Boards Investigation Office. Tubal McArthur is a young man, of questionable upbringing, in a career that belies that of his ancestry. A career that leads him on a switchback ride in a clandestine world of catching criminals and enjoying the tremendous esprit de corps of playing fast and loose alongside a skilled and highly effective group of misfits