But part of the build-up lies in the arrival of a tea-set, of which the teapot catches his attention. His central character, Dawson, lands himself purely by accident in a job with indistinct connections to British Intelligence, and gets shunted off to Australia in search of.
Steve Sheppard, however, nails it just right. 'Not all writers can carry off a sense of humour in their books for want of trying it's easy to go over the top. What is Flannery's game? Why has Pat Bootle turned up in Australia? Who is the beautiful but mysterious Lucy Smith? What is the teapot's secret? What has folk music got to do with anything? And how do guns actually work? Dawson's life will never be the same again. But instructions about what? This is the start of a frantic chase around south eastern Australia with half the local underworld, the police and the intelligence agencies of three countries trying to catch up with Dawson. Then, out of the blue, Dawson receives a job offer from his best friend, Alan Flannery, which involves him jumping on a plane to Australia to "await further instructions". But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere.
Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. A Very Important Teapot is a comedy thriller revolving around the hunt for a lost cache of Nazi diamonds in Australia.
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