As the third book of the Brian Ridley series opens, Brian is one of several engineers building a new 1,200-bed hospital near Benghazi, Libya. He soon realizes his mistake in coming to the country and returns home to England, only to find work hard to come by.

Eventually he finds a job at a frozen meat processing plant and things seem to be fine. After a few months, however, Brian begins to have disputes with management when they dont see things the same way. Brian is framed for something he didnt do, is wrongly charged with theft, and loses his job.
With time on his hands and his career in...