Wasting his life selling low-grade cocaine to tourists on the Spanish coast while drifting along in a perpetual haze of pot smoke, burned-out Englishman Martin Brock spends his time wishing that something will happen to make him rich and gets his chance when a friend arrives with five kilos of high-grade cocaine, but he soon discovers that his ''opportunity'' can have dangerous consequences. A first novel. Original. 25,000 first printing.