An incorruptible Nigerian finance minister visits a Swiss bank in the hope of obtaining the names of all its Nigerian clients. The banker refuses and the Nigerian makes increasingly alarming threats until the short story reaches its rather conservative climax.

In this collection of short stories, Jeffrey Archer uses his precise knowledge of the Geneva private banking establishment to make a funny dinner story. It is probably the best in the book as the covers bears a distorted Swiss flag with a bank vault numeric dial on it.

The bank is fictive Gerber et Cie at Avenue de Parchine. The Nigerian minister obtains a meeting with the 'Chairman' and is met by his assistant. The name of the bank, as always with Archer, is a good and credible name for a Swiss bank. It means 'Gerber and Co' and would usually be written with an ampersand : Gerber & Cie.

The finance minister threatens international sanctions, press conferences but always get a variation on the same answer from the banker:

There are no circumstances in which we would release the names of any of our account holders without their authority. I'm sorry to be of such little help, but those are, and will always remain, the bank's rules.

We let you read the book to see what happens in the end. Funny and well written, it will certainly entertain anybody who has set foot in a Swiss bank.