"Johnny Vincent who had achieved the Great Australian Dream, had no good reason to go to New Zealand. But Sir Henry Wynnne had lost his personal assistant in suspicious circumstances, and Sir Henry was not the kind of person whose requests you turned down. So, Johnny Vincent, ex-member of the Sydney Vice Squad and man-about-town, took the next flight to Wellington and became entangled in a conspiracy which involved senior officials, transvestites, and a strange religious sect in the lonely hills of the South Island."