Locked in a Lavatory. Alfie’s vivid sense of injustice dates back to childhood, when his father died after ten strokes of the cat-o’-nine-tails for armed robbery. Lodged in a children’s home ...

When Aidan, a spy, shows up to save her (he says) from being kidnapped or killed--or both, Elly and her beloved cat Alfie are plunged into a covert world where nothing and nobody is what it seems.

For Alfie, the only real life is sex life. Only then, can he kid himself he is living. Sex is not used as the working-class boy's way to "the top". Executive status has no appeal for Alfie.