The sophisticated and vicious world of London galleries and auctions, international political intrigue and smuggling. A burnt frame in the fireplace, a most valuable - of course, stolen - painting by an Old Master in the upholstery of a luxury car, dangerous incriminating evidence and an escape from powerful secret services that have no law. This is all of them: the Honorable Charlie McCabray, a successful art dealer, an epicurean and a hedonist, a lover of antiques and money, a professional of which there are few, an immoral and charming type, blooming amid moral decline, and his henchman Jock, the “anti-Jeeves”, in an explosive cocktail from P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming. Here is a novel by the cult British writer Cyril Bonfiglioli. Morality is not guaranteed, to be continued.