The Bezzle is set against a background of fast moving geopolitics, as China is plunged into a deep crisis after the collapse of its real estate and construction market, aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the threat of all out war in the Middle East.
It commences when Michael D’Arcy, a special advisor to Sir Patrick Kennedy, head of the INI Banking Corporation, is summoned to George Town on the Cayman Islands, where he is to assist Edouard Wang who arrives from China charged with a secret mission by his father, Henry Wang, CEO of the Delta Group, a large diversified Chinese holding, specialised in construction and commodities.