Otto Starks is a pulse' - a highly trained, very specialised security guard - who once had a lot of promise. Then things came undone. Now he is dangerously in debt to a loan shark and he has just been rolled for the fourth time by the same thief-in-disguise: the infamous Rat Burglar. The only bright spot in Otto's life is the woman he loves, Charlie Izzo, an art history professor who has taken a stand against the illegal trafficking of looted art. By day, she's highly principled, waging a one-woman war against intransigent colleagues. By night, she's someone else entirely.'