The advertisement that down-on-his-luck Martin Creighton placed in the paper read "Old Public School Boy (27) wishes to sell his life. £5000. Desperate, healthy, adaptable." In truth Creighton was just looking for a job to earn some sort of living. What he got out of the ad was an adventure that would see him working beside Bunny Chipstead against a group with a nasty blackmail scheme against the British government.