Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Bordeaux in the heady air of the very rich Arigato is all about Captain Colin Huntington, Royal Navy (retired), a man who has absolutely everything, plus one fatal flaw; he is a compulsive gambler, already forced to resign his commission to become a successful wine merchant. But continuing to gamble at such a fantastic rate that he has reached a point of no return, the Captain must run up debts of a million dollars that he doesn’t have, to his beautiful American wife as well as to a hard-eyed Pittsburgh banker and gives them both identical collateral. In short, he is now faced with a long prison term, not to mention the loss of everything the gods have bestowed.

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In a marvelous scheme to recoup, the Captain undertakes what will surely prove to be the most extravagant, outrageous robbery in the annals of fiction: the theft of 22,000 cases of classic French wine weighing four tons from the greatest warehouse in Bordeaux.

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Assisting him in the beautifully complex hijack is his own nudely gorgeous French mistress; the chief of the greatest international Think Tank; a Marseilles Mafioso chief; an arsonist; an electronics wizard; twenty-six men, three ships, 914 dislocated vacationers, and one the ten most celebrated cooks in France.

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A sharp explosion of inevitable consequences into incredible violence, Arigato is an admonition that luck isn’t always what it seems. Will the Captain manage to steal 8,000lbs of wine? And how in heaven’s name will he dispose of it if he does? And most cliff-hanging of all: is it possible that if a thief is charming enough and clever enough, he can - sometimes, not even in the way he himself expects – get away with it all?