When car valet Geoff Osmah woke up in the morning, every morning, without exception, he did not want to live. In the last hours of his thirty-eighth birthday he shares his suicidal ennui on Your Call! with fading dj Pete Moran. What Moran says to him that night triggers the endgame for both men. Geoff plots to rob Moran and enlists the assistance of graphologist Fraser Davis, a man he kidnaps in the belief that he is a Radio 2 show-biz raconteur who until recently worked with Moran on Your Call! Davis quickly turns Geoff's robbery to his own advantage: he alone will have Moran's money, and he will enjoy Osmah's body as well, even if he has to arrange both of their deaths himself.