The vulpine 'Black' Jack Markitt is a colleague of Inspector Moncrieff in the Serious Freud Office.
Unlike Moncrieff he is politically astute and highly ambitious, hence much more to the taste of the SFO chief, Commissioner Weiss.
When the president of the newly oil-rich African Trucial States arrives on a high-profile cultural visit to London Markitt seizes his chance to put his career path into overdrive.
Nothing must block his path to glory... and when Moncrieff is hung out to dry in the media over his failure to stem the wave of art theft in the metropolis Markitt puts his size 13 boot in
Can Moncrieff hold his corner against the combined pressures of professional rivalry and media ridicule?
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