 Although the book is not as explicitly anti-authoritarian as de Larrabeiti's most famous work, "The Borrible Trilogy", its satire of members of the royal family ensure that the book is run-through with the anti-authoritarianism that is present in all of de Larrabeiti's work.The novel's central character is Joe Rapps, a director-cameraman.At the start of the novel, Rapps is released from Wandsworth prison, where he was imprisoned for accidentally killing two children while driving drunk.