Mick McCreary is an oilman out of a job. His only possessions are a plane ticket to Singapore, a month’s pay in Indonesian rupiahs and the luck of the Irish.

When the mysterious Mr Rubensohn approaches him with the offer of a breathtaking salary for a drilling operation on a remote island - no questions asked - he thinks that luck is running with him once more.

But then he meets the beautiful Lisette, and within 24 hours he is involved in murder, intrigue and an international fraud of frightening proportions.