Meet Billy Glasheen, a fresh new voice in crime fiction. It's Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy's trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he's a likeable guy with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarios - whether it's a gambling scam or jewellery smuggling racket. But trouble follows close behind - perhaps because Billy's schemes always seem to interfere with the plans of Sydney's big players, an unholy trinity of crooks, bent cops and politicians on the make. Suddenly he's in the frame for murder and on the run. To prove his innocence he must find the real killer.