So how did he make his million?

Colin was a thinker, and a planner, and a nobody. His life had always been exactly the kind of life an undercover character in novels would have inhabited - entirely nondescript and unremarkable.

Bur Colin was never going to be an undercover agent for anyone - he simply didn't fancy being at the beck and call of the management. He had his own agenda.

Some research on areas of opportunity, a trip to Lawrence Corner for some props, hand in his resignation letter to his hateful boss at the local council, a brief visit to B & Q and he was ready.