Tired of aggressive, ungrateful customers, hapless motor-cycle repair shop owner, Simon Jones, decides that enough is enough. Encouraged by a newfound ‘gift’, he decides that it’s time to seek a new and better life.His savvy wife, Hazel, isn’t impressed by his ‘gift’, but agrees that a week’s holiday in Cornwall with the kids, Becky and Ben, and their delinquent golden retriever, Orpheus, would be a good idea, a chance to consider their future.While on the holiday, during which Orpheus steals a picnic prior to a sexual encounter he doesn’t welcome, an incident in a gift shop involving a large lady pretending to be an upturned tortoise, sparks an entrepreneurial idea, and they return home full of plans to create a new business. Initially, the business goes very well until an unanticipated disaster related to cosmetics that turn to cardboard strikes, leading to near bankruptcy. Desperate for money, Simon has a short spell working in a factory warehouse counting washers, followed by a longer one as Set in the 1970s, The Naked Emperor is the sequel to Day of Reckoning.Tired of aggressive, ungrateful customers, hapless motor-cycle repair shop owner, Simon Jones, decides that enough is enough. Encouraged by a newfound ‘gift’, he decides that it’s time to seek a new and better life.His savvy wife, Hazel, isn’t impressed by his ‘gift’, but agrees that a week’s holiday in Cornwall with the kids, Becky and Ben, and their delinquent golden retriever, Orpheus, would be a good idea, a chance to consider their future.While on the holiday, during which Orpheus steals a picnic prior to a sexual encounter he doesn’t welcome, an incident in a gift shop involving a large lady pretending to be an upturned tortoise, sparks an entrepreneurial idea, and they return home full of plans to create a new business. Initially, the business goes very well until an unanticipated disaster related to cosmetics that turn to cardboard strikes, leading to near bankruptcy. Desperate for money, Simon has a short spell working in a factory warehouse counting washers, followed by a longer one as an unsuccessful insurance salesman. One day he returns home from work, broke and full of despair, to be met by someone from the past, someone who, with the help of the naked emperor syndrome, eventually leads Simon and Hazel to a new life of fame and fortune.

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