When his deadbeat uncle — London’s most unlikely professional cleaner — turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, failed chef Eddie Marsh is dragged back into a criminal underworld he spent fifteen years trying to forget. Caught between the dangerous men his uncle left behind and his sister’s husband’s catastrophically ill-advised ambitions in the arms trade, Eddie must dust off the very skills he swore he’d never use — and discover that cleaning up other people’s disasters might just be the one thing he was born to do.