Meet Lucifer Box: His Majesty's most daring secret agent (who just happens to be gay). When Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, Lucifer is the only one who can help. Following a dinnertime assassination, Lucifer is dispatched to uncover the whereabouts of missing agent Jocelyn Poop.

Along the way he will give art lessons, be attacked by a poisonous centipede, bed a few choice specimens, and travel to Italy on business and pleasure. Aided by his henchwoman Delilah; the beautiful, mysterious, and Dutch Miss Bella Pok; his boss, and the impertinent but delicious, right-hand-boy Charlie Jackpot, Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street to the ruined city of Pompeii.