Arthur Hawkins grows up in poverty in London’s East End. On his fifteenth birthday he is forced to leave school. He gets a job as a clerk in a large insurance company and does well. He is spotted by a Lloyd’s of London syndicate and eventually promoted to underwriter, where he is involved in many of the Lloyd’s scandals of the 1980s.
Popular novelist, Charles Pearce, is “door-stepped” by the media after walking out of a television interview. A newspaper decides to find out why Pearce is so secretive about his private life. The story of Pearce’s life of rags to riches is slowly uncovered as is his murky past in the world of insurance and finance. Pearce rises from poverty to affluence but at an enormous personal cost.
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