A Five Year Plan

Philip Kerr, who sold his four previous novels to Hollywood for thousands of dollars, has worked out the art of writing the book of the film. A Five Year Plan has the ingredients — drugs, girls, high-octane climax — and all in a single boat. But this is no ordinary boat. It is a massive floating container, containing yet more boats, in which there are an assortment of glamorous cross-Atlantic travellers: a famous actor, a crook, an FBI agent, and a holdful of porn stars off to the Cannes Film Festival.