Alistair Dingley is a man with an easy charm and a large ego. He is filled with a ruthless determination to succeed in whatever he does and is used to getting his way. At the moment he is in the process of buying a beautiful wooded property from which he is determined to make, in his words, "an absolute killing." As he barks orders into his cellphone to the men he has hired to bulldoze the ground of its trees and shrubs so that he can build on it,...