The story of a petty criminal who lucks upon a large amount of cocaine which
he then tries to sell. The efforts to do this are conveyed in a way that well
suggests the nervousness of the lead as he blunders around Europe in his
efforts to make a fortune without getting caught by the original owners of the
drug. The author was a drug addict and much of the tale reads almost as an
autobiography. In some ways, this enhances the telling and certainly gives an indication of the febrile state that drugs can produce.