Anthony Birch, debt-burdened burned-out writer, knows it’s now or never, all or nothing—produce four books in four weeks or face financial ruin. Alone with a lot of typewriters on an uninhabited Caribbean island, he lets nothing distract him—apart from a Russian oligarch, a blonde bomb-shell, three ex-wives, numerous clamouring kids, the CIA, his mother, and an irritating frenemy colleague. As he weaves his multiple plots—is someone plotting against him?