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 newly elected Pope Boris arrives on a high-profile visit to London Markitt seizes another chance to put his career path into overdrive.
Nothing must interfere with his chance for self-enhancement... and when Moncrieff is hung out to dry in the media over the confusion of macaws, macaques and maquettes 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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